# Convert a Uint8Array to a string (/docs/guides/binary/typedarray-to-string)

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Related: [Convert an ArrayBuffer to a string](/docs/guides/binary/arraybuffer-to-string.md), [Convert an ArrayBuffer to a Buffer](/docs/guides/binary/arraybuffer-to-buffer.md), [Convert an ArrayBuffer to a Blob](/docs/guides/binary/arraybuffer-to-blob.md), [Convert an ArrayBuffer to an array of numbers](/docs/guides/binary/arraybuffer-to-array.md), [Convert an ArrayBuffer to a Uint8Array](/docs/guides/binary/arraybuffer-to-typedarray.md), [Convert a Buffer to a string](/docs/guides/binary/buffer-to-string.md)

Bun implements the Web-standard [`TextDecoder`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder) class for converting binary data types like `Uint8Array` to strings.

```ts
const arr = new Uint8Array([104, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
const decoder = new TextDecoder();
const str = decoder.decode(arr);
// => "hello"
```

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See [Binary Data](/runtime/binary-data#conversion).