[go-nuts] Find number of bytes in a string

[go-nuts] Find number of bytes in a string

	Evan Shaw
	Sep 14, 2012 at 7:15 pm

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Kowshik Prakasam wrote:
Is there a way to find the number of bytes in a string without converting it
into a byte array?

Try simply len(str). That gives you the number of bytes, not the
number of Unicode code points.

- Evan

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Kowshik Prakasam: Is there a way to find the number of bytes in a string without converting it into a byte array? i.e. I don't like the following: len(byte[]("str")) -Kowshik --

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Jan Mercl: Yes, use len(s): http://play.golang.org/p/gMDFeD1TkE -j --
DisposaBoy: len() --
Patrick Mylund Nielsen: len(s) http://golang.org/ref/spec#Length_and_capacity len(s) string type string length in bytes http://play.golang.org/p/BjhKaGSMJJ --

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