Printf can print hexadecimal just fine. Never understood the point of encoding/hex.
Meanwhile, for questions about strings, see blog.golang.org/strings. -rob On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:00 PM Sam Whited <s...@samwhited.com> wrote: > I personally wouldn't do this. If you're going to incur the overhead of a > heap allocation, might as well incur a bit more and encode the hash, eg. > using hex.EncodeToString [1], just so that you don't forget and try to > print or decode the string as utf8 later. > > —Sam > > [1]: https://godoc.org/encoding/hex#EncodeToString > > On August 20, 2019 8:12:20 AM UTC, Pierre Durand <pierredur...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >I know that by convention Go string contain UTF-8 encoded text. > > > >Is it recommended/a good practice to store invalid bytes in a string ? > > > >The use case: > >- compute a hash => get a []byte > >- convert the []byte to string (this string is not UTF-8 valid) > >- use the string as a map key > > > >In my case, the hash algorithm is md5. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/42989202-2854-479E-A536-13664BE41946%40samwhited.com > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOXNBZTKU%3DmSjj%2B9vujYFqphR0Zy%2BMtW0nHW2OayLchEgdvrEA%40mail.gmail.com.
