How to convert uint8 to string

Question

http://play.golang.org/p/BoZkHC8_uA

I want to convert uint8 to string but can\'t figure out how.

  package main

  import \"fmt\"
  import \"strconv\         


        

Answer 1

There is a difference between converting it or casting it, consider:

var s uint8 = 10
fmt.Print(string(s))
fmt.Print(strconv.Itoa(int(s)))

The string cast prints '\n' (newline), the string conversion prints "10". The difference becomes clear once you regard the []byte conversion of both variants:

[]byte(string(s)) == [10] // the single character represented by 10
[]byte(strconv.Itoa(int(s))) == [49, 48] // character encoding for '1' and '0'

see this code in play.golang.org