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I want to know how this works: web3.eth.getStorageAt(addressHexString, position [, defaultBlock] [, callback])

What data we can store at any address and how? And what will this eth API return?

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  • Related: http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/6397/how-do-i-get-the-storage-indices-keys – eth Aug 01 '16 at 09:37

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Each contract consists of a EVM bytecode handling the execution and a storage to save the state of the contract. This is a low level function to get the state of the contract's storage. The storage is essentially a key/value store.
The function returns the value the contracts storage has at a certain position.

Refer to the GitHub wiki pages.

More on storage here.

lungj
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Roland Kofler
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As of version 1.0 of web3.js, the web3.utils.hexToAscii function should be used. Correct syntax:

web3.eth.getStorageAt('/* Contract Address */', 0).then(result => {
  console.log(web3.utils.hexToAscii(result));
});
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for instance if you look at this contract source and you type this in geth:

web3.toAscii(web3.eth.getStorageAt("0x3589d05a1ec4Af9f65b0E5554e645707775Ee43C",1))

it returned the following 

"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00WEEDMAPS"
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  • Would you be able to also provide an example for getting the address of a dynamic array? i've tried with web3.sha3("0x01") to calculate the address but can't figure it out. – slothbag Jun 27 '16 at 23:53