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Converting a byte array filled with 0's to a string results in non-empty string (despite appearances) #39836

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chabad360 opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 3 comments
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Converting a byte array filled with 0's to a string results in non-empty string (despite appearances) #39836

chabad360 opened this issue Jun 24, 2020 · 3 comments
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@chabad360
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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.14.4 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output
$ go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/mendel/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/mendel/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/mendel/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/lib/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/home/mendel/Documents/Projects/Untitled/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build439515910=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	b := [32]byte{}
	fmt.Printf("b: %v, string(b[:]): %v, string(b[:]) == \"\": %v", b, string(b[:]), string(b[:]) == "")
}

https://play.golang.org/p/Yg03ksgALwE

What did you expect to see?

b: [0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0], string(b[:]): , string(b[:]) == "": true

What did you see instead?

b: [0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0], string(b[:]): , string(b[:]) == "": false
@chabad360 chabad360 changed the title Converting a byte array filled with 0 to a string results in non-empty string Converting a byte array filled with 0's to a string results in non-empty string Jun 24, 2020
@chabad360 chabad360 changed the title Converting a byte array filled with 0's to a string results in non-empty string Converting a byte array filled with 0's to a string results in non-empty string (despite appearances) Jun 24, 2020
@randall77
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This is intended. You get a string with 32 \0 characters in it, not the empty string.

@chabad360
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chabad360 commented Jun 24, 2020 •
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I understand that, but then how would I check to see if the string contains a \0 (irl the array size is some what random)?

@ianlancetaylor
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Sorry, when you say "check to see if the string contains that" I don't know what you mean by "that".

In general we do not use the issue tracker for questions about how Go works. You will get a better and faster answer on a forum. Please see https://golang.org/wiki/Questions. Thanks.

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