added some conversion functions to play with

listen.js

@@ -17,10 +17,19 @@ function pad(str, len, ch) {
   while (str.length < len) {
     str = ch + str;
   }
-
   return str;
 }
 
+function binaryAgent(str) {
+
+var binString = '';
+
+str.split(' ').map(function(bin) {
+    binString += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(bin, 2));
+  });
+return binString;
+}
+
 socket.on('message', function (message, rinfo) {
   console.log('Received %d bytes from %s:%d\n',
     message.length, rinfo.address, rinfo.port);
@@ -32,9 +41,9 @@ socket.on('message', function (message, rinfo) {
 
   });
 
-  console.log('got here');
-  console.log(message.toString('hex'));
-  console.log(message.toString('ascii'));
+  
+  // console.log(message.toString('hex'));
+  // console.log(message.toString('ascii'));
   var packets;
 
   try {

parse-binary-test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+'use strict';
+
+
+// This test code is meant to take a binary sample from the crash of listen.js
+// example and parse through it to spot where the error occurs.
+
+// ex: pad('11111', 8, '0')
+function pad(str, len, ch) {
+
+  while (str.length < len) {
+    str = ch + str;
+  }
+    // What is the hex value of the str?
+    var hex_val = ParseInt(Number(str));
+
+  return str;
+}
+
+// ex: bin2hex('10010101')
+function bin2hex(str){
+    
+    var hex = parseInt(str, 2).toString(16);
+   
+
+    return hex;
+} 
+
+// ex: hex2ascii('A92F')
+function hex2ascii(str){
+
+    var hex = str.toString();
+    var ascii = '';
+    for (var n = 0; n < hex.length; n+=2) {
+        ascii += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(hex.substr(n,2), 16));
+    }
+
+
+    return ascii;
+
+    }
+
+
+function binaryAgent(str) {
+
+var binString = '';
+
+str.split(' ').map(function(bin) {
+    binString += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(bin, 2));
+  });
+return binString;
+}
+
+var str = binaryAgent('01000001 01110010 01100101 01101110 00100111 01110100');
+
+console.log(str);
+//translates to "Aren't"
+
+
+// // binary to hex convestion
+// var bin = '00001111';
+// var hex = bin2hex(bin);
+
+// // hex to ascii character converstion
+//  console.log('binary: ' + bin + ' Hex: ' + hex);
+
+//  var hex = '';
+// var ascii = hex2ascii(hex);
+
+// console.log('Hex: ' + hex + ' ascii: ' + ascii);