From a238087aa22f163fa0bbf6890a451b3919925930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Pike Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:46:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] StringBytes help routine, common functionality put into package io for sharing. R=rsc DELTA=10 (10 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed) OCL=20928 CL=20931 --- src/lib/io/io.go | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/lib/io/io.go b/src/lib/io/io.go index 9ae92644161..26c2aaab76b 100644 --- a/src/lib/io/io.go +++ b/src/lib/io/io.go @@ -144,3 +144,13 @@ export func Copy(src Read, dst Write) (written int64, err *os.Error) { return written, err } +// Convert a string to an array of bytes for easy marshaling. +// Could fill with syscall.StringToBytes but it adds an unnecessary \000 +// so the length would be wrong. +export func StringBytes(s string) *[]byte { + b := new([]byte, len(s)); + for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ { + b[i] = s[i]; + } + return b; +}