From: Feross Aboukhadijeh <feross@feross.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 08:16:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add explanatory comment
X-Git-Url: https://zoso.dev/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50b05261fd4bb08b643ef0f31b9d8ad8390a9258;p=buffer.git

Add explanatory comment

In response to @dcposch's feedback
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diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 834bea0..d5347f3 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ function fromString (that, string, encoding) {
   var actual = that.write(string, encoding)
 
   if (actual !== length) {
+    // Writing a hex string, for example, that contains invalid characters will
+    // cause everything after the first invalid character to be ignored. (e.g.
+    // 'abxxcd' will be treated as 'ab')
     that = that.slice(0, actual)
   }