From e45e73b3357db47bae8b132848c591945efb9d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tobias=20Nie=C3=9Fen?= <tniessen@tnie.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:47:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] buffer: remove unnecessary assignment in fromString

The assignment to the encoding variable has no effect.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29217
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50199
Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
---
 lib/buffer.js | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index 0ff7c1920adbba..ee30c69cc9611c 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -475,7 +475,6 @@ function fromString(string, encoding) {
     if (string.length === 0)
       return new FastBuffer();
     ops = encodingOps.utf8;
-    encoding = undefined;
   } else {
     ops = getEncodingOps(encoding);
     if (ops === undefined)