How do I convert a string of escape sequences to bytes?-CodePudding

Creating a TCP server that needs to process some data. I have a net.Conn instance "connection"from which I will read said data. The lower part of the snippet brings about an error noting that it cannot use the 'esc' value as a byte value.

const(
esc = "\a\n"
 )
....
c := bufio.NewReader(connection)
data, err := c.ReadBytes(esc)

Clearly, some conversion is needed but when I try

 const(
esc = "\a\n"
 )
....
c := bufio.NewReader(connection)
data, err := c.ReadBytes(byte(esc))

The compiler makes note that I cannot convert esc to byte. Is it due to the fact that I declared "\a\n" as a const value on the package level? Or is there something else overall associated with how I'm framing the bytes to be read?

CodePudding user response：

You can't convert esc to byte because you can't convert strings into single bytes. You can convert a string into a byte slice ([]byte).

The bufio.Reader only supports single byte delimiters, you should use a bufio.Scanner with a custom split function instead for multi-byte delimiters.

Perhaps a modified version of https://stackoverflow.com/a/37531472/1205448