Read 2 bytes as integer

Question

I have a buffer containing the following:

04 01 0c ea c0 a8 00 01 00

The 3rd and 4th bytes (0x0c 0xea) form a port number (3306), but how can I take these bytes and transform them into this integer (3306)?

Answer 1

I believe you want buf.readInt16LE().

http://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_buf_readint16le_offset_noassert