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encoding/base64: add examples #4136

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gopherbot opened this issue Sep 23, 2012 · 7 comments
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encoding/base64: add examples #4136

gopherbot opened this issue Sep 23, 2012 · 7 comments
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@gopherbot
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by joaopintojeronimo:

In http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/base64/, it's very hard to figure out how to do an
encoding and decoding, I tried two methods and had to go to the IRC channel so they
could help me out, and they suggested that I should open this issue.
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minux commented Sep 23, 2012

Comment 1:

do you want to contribute examples for encoding/base64?
examples are (almost) always welcome.

Labels changed: added priority-later, go1.1, removed priority-triage.

Status changed to Accepted.

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Comment 2 by joaopintojeronimo:

I would love to contribute but I didn't understand very well how to use that package. I
think two very important examples would be encoding and decoding a string, since people
who come from other programming languages are very to that. The simple encoding of a
string would be:
// Encoding
data := "a string to be encoded"
enc := base64.StdEncoding
encLength := enc.EncodedLen(len(data))
dst := make([]byte, encLength)
enc.Encode(dst, []byte(uniqueID))
encodedData := string(dst)
And I still don't know how to decode it (to be fair, have not tried it, if I have the
time I'll look at the docs again and post it here)

@fsouza
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fsouza commented Sep 24, 2012

Comment 3:

Here is an example: http://play.golang.org/p/Expz7K_Ehw

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wvh commented Sep 25, 2012

Comment 4:

That example annoyingly leaves a trailing 0x0 that needs to be stripped. Maybe this is
not so easy after all. :)

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wvh commented Sep 25, 2012

Comment 5:

That example annoyingly leaves a trailing 0x0 that needs to be stripped. Maybe this is
not so easy after all. :)
Try this:
http://play.golang.org/p/jZnlfoqyhC

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dsymonds commented Oct 8, 2012

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Owner changed to @dsymonds.

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dsymonds commented Oct 8, 2012

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This issue was closed by revision 05e4e80.

Status changed to Fixed.

@rsc rsc added this to the Go1.1 milestone Apr 14, 2015
@rsc rsc removed the go1.1 label Apr 14, 2015
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