Conversion: trytes and trits

IOTA101_3BB8C879CCAE.js

// The snippet is a part of the IOTA Developer Essentials project. You can reach it at https://hribek25.github.io/IOTA101/
// Complete description and story behind the snippet is available at: https://hribek25.github.io/IOTA101/Allchapters_javascript.ipynb.html#3BB8C879CCAE
// Requirement: A converter module of IOTA Javascript Library (!npm install @iota/converter)

var Converter = require('@iota/converter') //loading helping converter module of iota.js library. More info: https://github.com/iotaledger/iota.js/tree/next/packages/converter#module_converter.trits

var Trytes = "YZJEATEQ9JKLZ" //some data encoded in Trytes
console.log(Trytes)
console.log("Number of Trytes: %s" , Trytes.length)

var Trits = Converter.trits(Trytes) //converting Trytes to Trits

console.log(Trits.join(","))
console.log("Number of trits: %s", Trits.length) //Number of trits is three times the number of trytes obviously