From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:46:45 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: StringBytes help routine, common functionality put into package io for sharing.
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2009-11-06~2534
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a238087aa22f163fa0bbf6890a451b3919925930;p=gostls13.git

StringBytes help routine, common functionality put into package io for sharing.

R=rsc
DELTA=10  (10 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed)
OCL=20928
CL=20931
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diff --git a/src/lib/io/io.go b/src/lib/io/io.go
index 9ae9264416..26c2aaab76 100644
--- a/src/lib/io/io.go
+++ b/src/lib/io/io.go
@@ -144,3 +144,13 @@ export func Copy(src Read, dst Write) (written int64, err *os.Error) {
 	return written, err
 }
 
+// Convert a string to an array of bytes for easy marshaling.
+// Could fill with syscall.StringToBytes but it adds an unnecessary \000
+// so the length would be wrong.
+export func StringBytes(s string) *[]byte {
+	b := new([]byte, len(s));
+	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
+		b[i] = s[i];
+	}
+	return b;
+}