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Encoding and decoding binary data - Go Tutorial
From the course: Go Standard Library
Encoding and decoding binary data
- [Instructor] Let's dive into using the encoding package for processing binary data. Processing binary data is useful for data storage and transmission. There are three types of binary encoding components provided by the encoding package in Go. Base64 encoding, which is useful for transmitting binary data as text. Binary encoding, which is essential for handling low-level data operations. And gob encoding, which is optimized for Go types. Base64 encoding is commonly used when you need to send binary data through text-only channels, embed binary data in JSON or XML, store binary data in databases that don't support binary types, or include binary data in URLs or email attachments. Let's look at an example. In this example, we first use the byte array to convert the string LinkedIn Learning into a byte slice, which is the raw data that we want to encode. We encode the data using StdEncoding.EncodeToString, which converts the byte slice into a Base64 string. The encoded object is a…
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