Elixir Binary

Small library for handling binaries in Elixir. It's a wrapper around erlang :binary, plus a few String-alike functions.

When using it instead of erlang's :binary you get more sexy code and typespecs, plus you get some functions that String offers like reverse/1, trim_trailing/2 etc. You should not use String for binaries becaues it operates on codepoints, not bytes.

Full list of functions can be found on hexdocs

In edge cases, the behavior is modeled after Elixir.String. API will be frozen with version 0.1.0. I'm hoping to collect some feedback first, but I don't plan any breaking API changes.

Usage

Add dependency in your mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:binary, "~> 0.0.5"}]
end

Enjoy:

iex< import Binary
iex> [1, 2] |> from_list |> pad_trailing(4) |> reverse |> split_at(-1)
{<<0, 0, 2>>,  <<1>>}

License

MIT, check the LICENSE file. Just do whatever you like with this.

Contributing

Even tiny contributions are very much welcome. Just open an issue or pull request on github.