Hi everybody, I ran into this problem yesterday, I couldn't convert a string created with a bytes.Buffer into a big.Int by using SetString. On the other hand, with the same string value, created from literals or even from a byte slice, the conversion is successful.
Find the code below or on the playground at https://play.golang.org/p/Sg7ShB-okP : package main import ( "bytes" "fmt" "math/big" ) func tryConvert(s string) { var ok bool bint := new(big.Int) if bint, ok = bint.SetString(s, 10); !ok { fmt.Println("\tFail") } else { fmt.Println("\tSuccess, proof: ", bint) } } func main() { buf := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 4)) buf.WriteString("1234") fmt.Println("Conversion from bytes.Buffer.String() to big.Int:") tryConvert(buf.String()) fmt.Println("Conversion from string to big.Int:") tryConvert("1234") fmt.Println("Conversion from string([]byte{}) to big.Int:") tryConvert(string([]byte{byte('1'), byte('2'), byte('3'), byte('4')})) } $ go version go version go1.9.1 linux/amd64 What am I missing? Have a great day Aurélien Rainone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
