Byte Slices
Explore the concept of byte slices in Go, including how they represent string data and their importance in file input/output operations. Learn to convert between strings and byte slices, understand the handling of ASCII and Unicode characters, and see practical examples demonstrating their use and memory implications.
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What are byte slices?
A byte slice is a slice of the byte data type ([]byte). Go knows that most byte slices are used to store strings and so it makes it easy to switch between this type and the string type. There is nothing special in the way we can access a byte slice compared to the other types of slices. What is special is that Go uses byte slices for performing file I/O operations because they allow us to determine with ...