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<font color=red>Why would I use an bytes.Buffer and not a byte slice?</font>
<font color=darkkhaki>Why would I use an bytes.Buffer and not a byte slice?</font>
 
=Wrapping a <tt>byte[]</tt> into a <tt>Reader</tt>=
{{Internal|Go_Package_io#WBSR|Wrapping a <tt>&#91;]byte</tt> into a <tt>Reader</tt>}}

Latest revision as of 18:17, 5 January 2024

External

Internal

Buffer

A Buffer is a variable-sized buffer of bytes with Read and Write methods. The zero value for Buffer is an empty buffer ready to use. A Buffer does not have to be initialized and supports both Reader and Writer interface.

Conversion of a Buffer into a []byte:

var buffer bytes.Buffer
bytes := buffer.Bytes()

Why would I use an bytes.Buffer and not a byte slice?

Wrapping a byte[] into a Reader

Wrapping a []byte into a Reader