I apologise if this has already been discussed. Google didn't turn up anything directly related.
If you read a file using the following that returns a byte slice. tlsCertb, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/etc/ssl/mycert") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } tlsCert = string(tlsCertb) Is there a way to get a string without the cast. Otherwise couldn't the language automatically return a string rather than a byte slice in these cases if the receiving var is already a string? e.g. var string tlsCert tlsCert, err = ioutil.ReadFile("/etc/ssl/mycert") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } -- 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/80be59d6-be0a-4112-3c6b-7f37b05543ea%40gmail.com.