dtype

Return a data type from a string representing the data type.

Mostly useful for using with ndarray
where you would like instantiate a typed array of the same array.dtype.

See ndarray-dtype if you need to support Buffer and other ndarray types.

example

``js
var dtype = require('dtype')
var ndarray = require('ndarray')

var arr = ndarray(new Int8Array(32))

// some time later

var newarr = ndarray(new (dtype(arr.dtype)))
`

API


dtype(string) will return the following data types based on the strings given:

Data type | String
--------: | :-----
Int8Array | "int8"
Int16Array | "int16"
Int32Array | "int32"
Uint8Array | "uint8"
Uint16Array | "uint16"
Uint32Array | "uint32"
Float32Array | "float32"
Float64Array | "float64"
Array | "array"
Uint8ClampedArray | "uint8_clamped"

Returns undefined if the type isn't recognized.

install

With npm do:

`
npm install dtype
`

Use browserify to require('dtype')`.

see also

- ndarray-dtype

release history

* 2.0.0 - moving buffer, generic and data to a different module
* 1.0.0 - Add uint8_clamped, generic, data, dataview and buffer types
* 0.1.0 - initial release

license

Copyright (c) 2015 Kyle Robinson Young

Licensed under the MIT license.