I recently tried appending two byte array slices in Go and came across some odd errors. My code is:
one:=make([]byte, 2)
two:=make([]byte, 2)
one[0]=0x00
one[1]=0x01
two[0]=0x02
two[1]=0x03
log.Printf("%X", append(one[:], two[:]))
three:=[]byte{0, 1}
four:=[]byte{2, 3}
five:=append(three, four)
And the errors are:
cannot use four (type []uint8) as type uint8 in append
cannot use two[:] (type []uint8) as type uint8 in append
Which taken into consideration the alleged robustness of Go's slices shouldn't be a problem:
http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SliceTricks
What am I doing wrong, and how should I go about appending two byte arrays?
Appending to and copying slices
The variadic function append
appends zero or more values x
to s
of
type S
, which must be a slice type, and returns the resulting slice,
also of type S
. The values x
are passed to a parameter of type ...T
where T
is the element type of S
and the respective parameter passing
rules apply.
append(s S, x ...T) S // T is the element type of S
Passing arguments to ...
parameters
If the final argument is assignable to a slice type []T
, it may be
passed unchanged as the value for a ...T
parameter if the argument is
followed by ...
.
You need to use []T...
for the final argument.
For example,
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
one := make([]byte, 2)
two := make([]byte, 2)
one[0] = 0x00
one[1] = 0x01
two[0] = 0x02
two[1] = 0x03
fmt.Println(append(one[:], two[:]...))
three := []byte{0, 1}
four := []byte{2, 3}
five := append(three, four...)
fmt.Println(five)
}
append()
takes a slice of type []T
, and then a variable number of values of the type of the slice member T
. In other words, if you pass a []uint8
as the slice to append()
then it wants every subsequent argument to be a uint8
.
The solution to this is to use the slice...
syntax for passing a slice in place of a varargs argument. Your code should look like
log.Printf("%X", append(one[:], two[:]...))
and
five:=append(three, four...)