Jest magic number comparison failing in expect...toBe

Question

I'm testing to ensure a Buffer's magic number is zip format.

I'm doing this by extracting the buffer's first 4 bytes to string and comparing against the magic number for zip which is PK.

   const zipMagicNumber: string = 'PK'
   const uploadedMagicNumber: string = uploadMock.mock.calls[0][0].Body.subarray(0, 4).toString()

   expect(zipMagicNumber).toBe(uploadedMagicNumber)

But the test is failing with:

    expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

    Expected: "PK"
    Received: "PK"

These are the both the same values and are both strings. Am I missing something?

`toBe` asks if they're the same reference. Try `toEqual`. – jonrsharpe Jul 02 '22 at 19:46 — jonrsharpe, Jul 02 '22 at 19:46
tried `toEqual` and it threw the same error – alyx Jul 02 '22 at 20:20 — alyx, Jul 02 '22 at 20:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '22 at 04:22

Some hidden characters were causing the comparison error, so for legibility I moved to using hex comparisons instead and now it's passing:

const zipMagicNumber = Buffer.from('504B0304', 'hex').toString('hex')
const uploadedMagicNumber = uploadMock.mock.calls[0][0].Body.subarray(0, 4).toString('hex')

expect(zipMagicNumber).toBe(uploadedMagicNumber)

Jest magic number comparison failing in expect...toBe

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