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How to Create a Byte Array in Golang

Go has integer types called byte and rune epithets for uint8 and int32 data types. In Go, there is no char data type. Instead, it uses byte and rune to represent character values. The []byte and string in Go are small headers pointing to data that have lengths suggesting how much data is present. The []byte has two lengths:

The current length of the data.

A byte is one of the most used data types in Go, and let’s create one.

How to Create a byte in Go

To create a byte in Go, assign an ASCII character to a variable. A byte in Golang is an unsigned 8-bit integer.

The byte type represents ASCII characters, while the rune data type represents a broader set of Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8 format.

To convert these ASCII numbers to characters, use the Printf(“%c”).

How to Create a byte array in Golang

To create a byte array in Golang , use a slice of bytes []byte. Golang’s slice data type provides a suitable and efficient way of working with typed data sequences.

For converting from a string to a byte slice, string -> []byte .

To convert a byte array to a string , use the string() constructor.

That’s it for this tutorial.

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Understanding Arrays and Slices in Go

Introduction

In Go, arrays and slices are data structures that consist of an ordered sequence of elements. These data collections are great to use when you want to work with many related values. They enable you to keep data together that belongs together, condense your code, and perform the same methods and operations on multiple values at once.

Although arrays and slices in Go are both ordered sequences of elements, there are significant differences between the two. An array in Go is a data structure that consists of an ordered sequence of elements that has its capacity defined at creation time. Once an array has allocated its size, the size can no longer be changed. A slice , on the other hand, is a variable length version of an array, providing more flexibility for developers using these data structures. Slices constitute what you would think of as arrays in other languages.

Given these differences, there are specific situations when you would use one over the other. If you are new to Go, determining when to use them can be confusing: Although the versatility of slices make them a more appropriate choice in most situations, there are specific instances in which arrays can optimize the performance of your program.

This article will cover arrays and slices in detail, which will provide you with the necessary information to make the appropriate choice when choosing between these data types. Furthermore, you’ll review the most common ways to declare and work with both arrays and slices. The tutorial will first provide a description of arrays and how to manipulate them, followed by an explanation of slices and how they differ.

Arrays are collection data structures with a set number of elements. Because the size of an array is static, the data structure only needs to allocate memory once, as opposed to a variable length data structure that must dynamically allocate memory so that it can become larger or smaller in the future. Although the fixed length of arrays can make them somewhat rigid to work with, the one-time memory allocation can increase the speed and performance of your program. Because of this, developers typically use arrays when optimizing programs in instances where the data structure will never need a variable amount of elements.

Defining an Array

Arrays are defined by declaring the size of the array in brackets [ ] , followed by the data type of the elements. An array in Go must have all its elements be the same data type . After the data type, you can declare the individual values of the array elements in curly brackets { } .

The following is the general schema for declaring an array:

Note: It is important to remember that every declaration of a new array creates a distinct type. So, although [2]int and [3]int both have integer elements, their differing lengths make their data types incompatible.

If you do not declare the values of the array’s elements, the default is zero-valued, which means that the elements of the array will be empty. For integers, this is represented by 0 , and for strings this is represented by an empty string.

For example, the following array numbers has three integer elements that do not yet have a value:

If you printed numbers , you would receive the following output:

If you would like to assign the values of the elements when you create the array, place the values in curly brackets. An array of strings with set values looks like this:

You can store an array in a variable and print it out:

Running a program with the preceding lines would give you the following output:

Notice that there is no delineation between the elements in the array when it is printed, making it difficult to tell where one element ends and another begins. Because of this, it is sometimes helpful to use the fmt.Printf function instead, which can format strings before printing them to the screen. Provide the %q verb with this command to instruct the function to put quotation marks around the values:

This will result in the following:

Now each item is quoted. The \n verb instructs to the formatter to add a line return at the end.

With a general idea of how to declare arrays and what they consist of, you can now move on to learning how to specify elements in an array with an index number.

Indexing Arrays (and Slices)

Each element in an array (and also a slice) can be called individually through indexing. Each element corresponds to an index number, which is an int value starting from the index number 0 and counting up.

We will use an array in the following examples, but you could use a slice as well, since they are identical in how you index both of them.

For the array coral , the index breakdown looks like this:

The first element, the string "blue coral" , starts at index 0 , and the slice ends at index 3 with the element "elkhorn coral" .

Because each element in a slice or array has a corresponding index number, we’re able to access and manipulate them in the same ways we can with other sequential data types.

Now we can call a discrete element of the slice by referring to its index number:

The index numbers for this slice range from 0-3 , as shown in the previous table. So to call any of the elements individually, we would refer to the index numbers like this:

If we call the array coral with an index number of any that is greater than 3 , it will be out of range as it will not be valid:

When indexing an array or slice, you must always use a positive number. Unlike some languages that let you index backwards with a negative number, doing that in Go will result in an error:

We can concatenate string elements in an array or slice with other strings using the + operator:

We were able to concatenate the string element at index number 0 with the string "Sammy loves " .

With index numbers that correspond to elements within an array or a slice, we’re able to access each element discretely and work with those elements. To demonstrate this, we will next look at how to modify an element at a certain index.

Modifying Elements

We can use indexing to change elements within an array or slice by setting an index numbered element equal to a different value. This gives us greater control over the data in our slices and arrays, and will allow us to programmatically manipulate individual elements.

If we want to change the string value of the element at index 1 of the array coral from "staghorn coral" to "foliose coral" , we can do so like this:

Now when we print coral , the array will be different:

Now that you know how to manipulate individual elements of an array or a slice, let’s look at a couple of functions that will give you more flexibility when working with collection data types.

Counting Elements with len()

In Go, len() is a built-in function made to help you work with arrays and slices. Like with strings, you can calculate the length of an array or slice by using len() and passing in the array or slice as a parameter.

For example, to find how many elements are in the coral array, you would use:

If you print out the length for the array coral , you’ll receive the following output:

This gives the length of the array 4 in the int data type, which is correct because the array coral has four items:

If you create an array of integers with more elements, you could use the len() function on this as well:

This would result in the following output:

Although these example arrays have relatively few items, the len() function is especially useful when determining how many elements are in very large arrays.

Next, we will cover how to add an element to a collection data type, and demonstrate how, because of the fixed length of arrays, appending these static data types will result in an error.

Appending Elements with append()

append() is a built-in method in Go that adds elements to a collection data type. However, this method will not work when used with an array. As mentioned before, the primary way in which arrays are different from slices is that the size of an array cannot be modified. This means that while you can change the values of elements in an array, you can’t make the array larger or smaller after it has been defined.

Let’s consider your coral array:

Say you want to add the item "black coral" to this array. If you try to use the append() function with the array by typing:

You will receive an error as your output:

To fix this, let’s learn more about the slice data type, how to define a slice, and how to convert from an array to a slice.

A slice is a data type in Go that is a mutable , or changeable, ordered sequence of elements. Since the size of a slice is variable, there is a lot more flexibility when using them; when working with data collections that may need to expand or contract in the future, using a slice will ensure that your code does not run into errors when trying to manipulate the length of the collection. In most cases, this mutability is worth the possible memory re-allocation sometimes required by slices when compared to arrays. When you need to store a lot of elements or iterate over elements and you want to be able to readily modify those elements, you’ll likely want to work with the slice data type.

Defining a Slice

Slices are defined by declaring the data type preceded by an empty set of square brackets ( [] ) and a list of elements between curly brackets ( {} ). You’ll notice that, as opposed to arrays that require an int in between the brackets to declare a specific length, a slice has nothing between the brackets, representing its variable length.

Let’s create a slice that contains elements of the string data type:

When we print out the slice, we can see the elements that are in the slice:

If you would like to create a slice of a certain length without populating the elements of the collection yet, you can use the built-in make() function:

If you printed this slice, you would get:

If you want to pre-allocate the memory for a certain capacity, you can pass in a third argument to make() :

This would make a zeroed slice with a length of 3 and a pre-allocated capacity of 5 elements.

You now know how to declare a slice. However, this does not yet solve the error we had with the coral array earlier. To use the append() function with coral , you will first have to learn how to slice out sections of an array.

Slicing Arrays into Slices

By using index numbers to determine beginning and endpoints, you can call a subsection of the values within an array. This is called slicing the array, and you can do this by creating a range of index numbers separated by a colon, in the form of [ first_index : second_index ] . It is important to note however, that when slicing an array, the result is a slice, not an array.

Let’s say you would like to just print the middle items of the coral array, without the first and last element. You can do this by creating a slice starting at index 1 and ending just before index 3 :

Running a program with this line would yield the following:

When creating a slice, as in [1:3] , the first number is where the slice starts (inclusive), and the second number is the sum of the first number and the total number of elements you would like to retrieve:

In this instance, you called the second element (or index 1) as the starting point, and called two elements in total. This is how the calculation would look:

Which is how you arrived at this notation:

If you want to set the beginning or end of the array as a starting or end point of the slice, you can omit one of the numbers in the array[ first_index : second_index ] syntax. For example, if you want to print the first three items of the array coral — which would be "blue coral" , "foliose coral" , and "pillar coral" — you can do so by typing:

This will print:

This printed the beginning of the array, stopping right before index 3 .

To include all the items at the end of an array, you would reverse the syntax:

This would give the following slice:

This section discussed calling individual parts of an array by slicing out subsections. Next, you’ll learn how to use slicing to convert entire arrays into slices.

Converting from an Array to a Slice

If you create an array and decide that you need it to have a variable length, you can convert it to a slice. To convert an array to a slice, use the slicing process you learned in the Slicing Arrays into Slices step of this tutorial, except this time select the entire slice by omitting both of the index numbers that would determine the endpoints:

Keep in mind that you can’t convert the variable coral to a slice itself, since once a variable is defined in Go, its type can’t be changed. To work around this, you can copy the entire contents of the array into a new variable as a slice:

If you printed coralSlice , you would receive the following output:

Now, try to add the black coral element like in the array section, using append() with the newly converted slice:

This will output the slice with the added element:

We can also add more than one element in a single append() statement:

To combine two slices together, you can use append() , but you must expand the second argument to append using the ... expansion syntax:

Now that you have learned how to append an element to your slice, we will take a look at how to remove one.

Removing an Element from a Slice

Unlike other languages, Go does not provide any built-in functions to remove an element from a slice. Items need to be removed from a slice by slicing them out.

To remove an element, you must slice out the items before that element, slice out the items after that element, then append these two new slices together without the element that you wanted to remove.

If i is the index of the element to be removed, then the format of this process would look like the following:

From coralSlice , let’s remove the item "elkhorn coral" . This item is located at the index position of 3 .

Now the element at index position 3 , the string "elkhorn coral" , is no longer in our slice coralSlice .

We can also delete a range with the same approach. Say we wanted to remove not only the item "elkhorn coral" , but "black coral" and "antipathes" as well. We can use a range in the expression to accomplish this:

This code will take out index 3 , 4 , and 5 from the slice:

Now that you know how to add and remove elements from a slice, let’s look at how to measure the amount of data a slice can hold at any given time.

Measuring the Capacity of a Slice with cap()

Since slices have a variable length, the len() method is not the best option to determine the size of this data type. Instead, you can use the cap() function to learn the capacity of a slice. This will show you how many elements a slice can hold, which is determined by how much memory has already been allocated for the slice.

Note: Because the length and capacity of an array are always the same, the cap() function will not work on arrays.

A common use for cap() is to create a slice with a preset number of elements and then fill in those elements programmatically. This avoids potential unnecessary allocations that could occur by using append() to add elements beyond the capacity currently allocated for.

Let’s take the scenario where we want to make a list of numbers, 0 through 3 . We can use append() in a loop to do so, or we can pre-allocate the slice first and use cap() to loop through to fill the values.

First, we can look at using append() :

In this example, we created a slice, and then created a for loop that would iterate four times. Each iteration appended the current value of the loop variable i into the index of the numbers slice. However, this could lead to unnecessary memory allocations that could slow down your program. When adding to an empty slice, each time you make a call to append, the program checks the capacity of the slice. If the added element makes the slice exceed this capacity, the program will allocate additional memory to account for it. This creates additional overhead in your program and can result in a slower execution.

Now let’s populate the slice without using append() by pre-allocating a certain length/capacity:

In this example, we used make() to create a slice and had it pre-allocate 4 elements. We then used the cap() function in the loop to iterate through each zeroed element, filling each until it reached the pre-allocated capacity. In each loop, we placed the current value of the loop variable i into the index of the numbers slice.

While the append() and the cap() strategies are both functionally equivalent, the cap() example avoids any additional memory allocations that would have been needed using the append() function.

Constructing Multidimensional Slices

You can also define slices that consist of other slices as elements, with each bracketed list enclosed inside the larger brackets of the parent slice. Collections of slices like these are called multidimensional slices . These can be thought of as depicting multidimensional coordinates; for example, a collection of five slices that are each six elements long could represent a two-dimensional grid with a horizontal length of five and a vertical height of six.

Let’s examine the following multidimensional slice:

To access an element within this slice, we will have to use multiple indices, one for each dimension of the construct:

In the preceding code, we first identify the element at index 0 of the slice at index 1 , then we indicate the element at index 0 of the slice at index 0 . This will yield the following:

The following are the index values for the rest of the individual elements:

When working with multidimensional slices, it is important to keep in mind that you’ll need to refer to more than one index number in order to access specific elements within the relevant nested slice.

In this tutorial, you learned the foundations of working with arrays and slices in Go. You went through multiple exercises to demonstrate how arrays are fixed in length, whereas slices are variable in length, and discovered how this difference affects the situational uses of these data structures.

To continue studying data structures in Go, check out our article on Understanding Maps in Go , or explore the entire How To Code in Go series.

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How to append byte to byte array in golang? Not byte array to byte array slices etc [duplicate]

but how do i do this elegantly?

c := append(a,b...) <-- what's the solution does anyone knows?

Would like to have the c[0] == a, c[1:] == b for checking next time

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You can make a a slice as well then append it with b .

You can use the bytes.Buffer to make this cleaner:

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Assign values to byte array

go assign byte array

I want to set an array of bytes. I'm writing this:

Goland tells me "expression or string literal expected", what am i doing wrong?

Note that zero values are special in golang, so both:

...will also work.

var foo = [...]byte{16: 0} also works. Makes no sense for this case, but it’s good for populating a sparse array.

That creates a slice instead of an array.

You can either do this:

or this (nicer)

Note that the second version doesn't tell the programmer (reader) what the size of the array is. In this case you can solve that by having 4 groups of 4 values, but in general it can be better to add the extra "[16]byte" even if you think it looks uglier.

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Convert a string to byte array or slice in go.

To convert a string to byte array or slice in Go language use the below one liner code.

We can use byte array to store a collection of binary data, for example, the contents of a file.

The above code to convert string to byte slice is very useful while using ioutil.WriteFile function, which accepts a bytes as its parameter:

We will go through an example to understand it further.

string to byte array example #

When we convert a string to a byte slice (array), we will get a new array that contains the same bytes as the string.

The conversion doesn’t change the string data.

I wrote a go program (‘convert-string-to-byte-array.go’) which convert a string to byte slice and prints it in the command prompt.

The converted byte array contains ASCII values of string characters.

Now run the Go program

byte array with ioutil.WriteFile #

As explained above, converting a string to byte array/slice is very useful while creating files using ioutil.WriteFile function.

The below code creates a new file called hello.txt using byte array.

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Golang bytes – variable and package

Bytes are a data type in Golang. In this post, we will explore bytes as well as slices of them, the bytes package itself and what can be done with it.

What is a byte variable?

A byte in Go is simply an unsigned 8-bit integer . That means it has a limit of (0 – 255) in numerical range. In Go, a byte can represent a character from a string as well.

Creating a byte variable

The syntax for declaring a byte is really simple all is needed is to declare it as a byte variable and then use it.

Zero value of a byte

The zero value of a byte is simply zero (0).

Using bytes with strings

Bytes can be converted to and from strings in Go. This is very useful in certain cases. Here is an example of using bytes along with strings.

Golang “bytes” package

The “bytes” package implements many useful functions that can be used to manipulate byte slices. It also contains a type Buffer which is an important struct that we will be exploring later on. Here are some of the most useful functions that can be used with byte slices.

1. Compare byte slices

The Compare(b1, b2 []byte) function compares byte slices lexicographically and returns int based on the following ruleset:

2. Check if a byte slice is a subslice of other

The Contains(s, a byte[]) function is used to check if a slice is subslice of another slice. Here is an example.

3. Check if a byte slice contains the rune

The ContainsRune(b []byte, r rune) function is used to check whether a byte slice contains a rune.

4. Check for equality of byte slices

The Equal(a, b []byte) function takes two-byte slices and returns true if they are equal.

The function EqualFold checks whether two-byte slices are equal even if they are different cased.

5. The “Fields” function

The Fields function separates a byte slice by whitespace it contains.

6. The “Index” function

The index function gets the first index of occurrence of a subslice in a slice of bytes. It returns -1 if it cannot find the index.

7. Join byte slices

The join function takes an array of a byte slice and joins them with a separator that it takes as an argument.

8. The repeat function

The repeat function simply repeats the slice the number of times it gets as an argument.

9. The “Split” function

The split function uses the separator to split the string into an array of string.

10. Trimming the slice

The slice can be trimmed off anything we use by simply using the trim function. Here is the way to do that.

Go bytes.Buffer type

The buffer is a useful struct which is very efficient. The Buffer type comes with the bytes package. Here is the syntax for declaring an empty buffer.

To write into a Buffer we can use the write function like this.

The Fprintf can also be used to write into the buffer.

There are some functions that can be used with the Buffer type. This comes useful for many different scenarios. Here we are going to explore some of them.

There are multiple write functions for different types of data like strings, runes, etc in the Buffer type.

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Assigning a 2D byte array and accessing via Web3

So I'm trying to work with two-dimensional byte arrays and am experiencing some results that I don't quite understand. I am using Truffle v2.0.4 for compiling/deploying my contracts with ethereumjs-testrpc as a blockchain backend.

Consider this super simple contract. It initilizes a 2D array of bytes, assigns the third element in the first array, and returns:

I can then access this contract via Truffle's Web3 wrapper:

Which produces the following output:

The first child array looks correct ( 0x02 is assigned to the third position), but then 0x02 pops up in the second and third arrays as well.

Why did multiple elements get assigned with one call? If this is expected behavior, what's the rationale behind this design decision? How can I only assign one element at a time in a 2D array?

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I read here that:

If possible (i.e. from anything to memory and from anything to a storage reference that is not a pointer), conversions between these data locations are performed automatically by the compiler. Sometimes, this is still not possible, i.e. mappings cannot reside in memory (as their size is unknown) and for now, some types in memory are not yet implemented, this includes structs and multi-dimensional arrays.

This is probably the reason.

The answer probably rests somewhere between a lack of implementation in Solidity and/or a decoding bug in Web3 (as @kobigurk had suggested). Also, thanks for that awesome link! :D – StuffAndThings Sep 2, 2016 at 3:12

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How to Create a Byte Array in Golang
To create a byte array in Golang, use a slice of bytes []byte. Golang's slice data type provides a suitable and efficient way of working with typed data sequences. Syntax []byte ("Your String") Example package main import ( "fmt" ) func main () { byteArray := []byte {97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102} fmt.Println (byteArray) } Output
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To return the number of bytes in a byte slice use the len function: bs := make ( []byte, 1000) sz := len (bs) // sz == 1000 If you mean the number of bytes in the underlying array use cap instead: bs := make ( []byte, 1000, 2000) sz := cap (bs) // sz == 2000
Understanding Arrays and Slices in Go
An array in Go is a data structure that consists of an ordered sequence of elements that has its capacity defined at creation time. Once an array has allocated its size, the size can no longer be changed. A slice, on the other hand, is a variable length version of an array, providing more flexibility for developers using these data structures.
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1 You cannot append to arrays in Go. Arrays are fixed-length. But you don't have an array, you have a slice. - Jonathan Hall Jun 13, 2020 at 7:42 1 Beyond that, what you have is already pretty elegant. What are you hoping to improve? - Jonathan Hall Jun 13, 2020 at 7:52 Add a comment 2 Answers Sorted by: 2
Go byte
Go byte tutorial shows how to work with bytes in Golang. A byte in Go is an unsigned 8-bit integer. It has type uint8. A byte has a limit of 0 - 255 in numerical range. It can represent an ASCII character. Go uses rune, which has type int32, to deal with multibyte characters.
Go Slices: usage and internals
When called, make allocates an array and returns a slice that refers to that array. var s []byte s = make ( []byte, 5, 5) // s == []byte {0, 0, 0, 0, 0} When the capacity argument is omitted, it defaults to the specified length. Here's a more succinct version of the same code: s := make ( []byte, 5)
Arrays in Go
In Go language, arrays are mutable, so that you can use array [index] syntax to the left-hand side of the assignment to set the elements of the array at the given index. Var array_name [index] = element You can access the elements of the array by using the index value or by using for loop. In Go language, the array type is one-dimensional.
How to assign string to bytes array in Golang?
The simple, easy, and safest way is to assign a string to bytes array is, []byte ("String_Value") Consider the below example, // to bytes array package main import ( "fmt" ) func main () { // Declare a byte array var b [] byte b = [] byte ( "Hello, world!"
Assign values to byte array : r/golang
Assign values to byte array I want to set an array of bytes. I'm writing this: var FooArr [size]byte = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 } Goland tells me "expression or string literal expected", what am i doing wrong? Thanks! 1 7 7 comments New Add a Comment nevyn • 4 yr. ago Note that zero values are special in golang, so both:
Arrays, slices (and strings): The mechanics of 'append'
Go has a built-in function, copy, to make this easier. Its arguments are two slices, and it copies the data from the right-hand argument to the left-hand argument. Here's our example rewritten to use copy: newSlice := make ( []int, len (slice), 2*cap (slice)) copy (newSlice, slice) Run. The copy function is smart.
Convert a String To Byte Array or Slice in Go
To convert a string to byte array or slice in Go language use the below one liner code. []byte (string) We can use byte array to store a collection of binary data, for example, the contents of a file. The above code to convert string to byte slice is very useful while using ioutil.WriteFile function, which accepts a bytes as its parameter:
Golang bytes
What is a byte variable? A byte in Go is simply an unsigned 8-bit integer. That means it has a limit of (0 - 255) in numerical range. In Go, a byte can represent a character from a string as well. Creating a byte variable The syntax for declaring a byte is really simple all is needed is to declare it as a byte variable and then use it. 1 2
Revisiting Arrays and Slices in Go
Unlike C and C++ arrays, which are of pointer type, Go arrays are of value type. Therefore, we can use new() to create an array: var ac = new([10]complex64) for i := range ac { fmt.Println(ac[i]) } We also can assign one array to another array; in such a case a distinct copy of the array is created in memory.
Go by Example: Arrays
In Go, an array is a numbered sequence of elements of a specific length. In typical Go code, slices are much more common; arrays are useful in some special scenarios. Here we create an array a that will hold exactly 5 int s. The type of elements and length are both part of the array's type. By default an array is zero-valued, which for int s ...
How to assign and access array element values in Go?
package main import "fmt" func main() { var theArray [3]string theArray[0] = "India" // Assign a value to the first element theArray[1] = "Canada" // Assign a value to the second element theArray[2] = "Japan" // Assign a value to the third element fmt.Println(theArray[0]) // Access the first element value fmt.Println(theArray[1]) // Access the …
How to initialize Array in Go Language with Examples?
Defining array in go language is very easy. We need to use the var keyword and write the name of the array, we can write any name for the array which is more relevant to the type of data we are going to store inside the array.
C# Byte Array Example
Byte arrays are similar to other kinds of arrays. Home. Search. Byte Array ExampleCreate, test, and measure byte arrays. Byte arrays are similar to other kinds of arrays. C#. This page was last reviewed on Nov 14, 2022. Byte array. With byte arrays, we can store binary data. This data may be part of a data file, image file, compressed file or ...
MemoryStream.ToArray Method (System.IO)
This method omits unused bytes in MemoryStream from the array. To get the entire buffer, use the GetBuffer method. This method returns a copy of the contents of the MemoryStream as a byte array. If the current instance was constructed on a provided byte array, a copy of the section of the array to which this instance has access is returned.
Assigning a 2D byte array and accessing via Web3
Consider this super simple contract. It initilizes a 2D array of bytes, assigns the third element in the first array, and returns: contract Sandbox { function retArr() public constant returns (byte[3][10] ret) { ret[0][2] = byte(2); } } I can then access this contract via Truffle's Web3 wrapper: