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PNG signature constant kept as a shared buffer

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The PNG file signature is kept once and reused for recognising pasted images.

What

The eight bytes that mark the start of a PNG file are held in one shared constant, used for recognising PNG data such as pasted images.

Evidence

Buffer.from([137, 80, 78, 71, 13, 10, 26, 10])

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