I'm not 100% sure why my binary string to unicode isn't working..can anyone point out the issue or help me patch it? Also the reason why i chunk out the binary is that it is too large for ParseInt to handle. See the playground link below for an example.
func binToString(s []byte) string {
var counter int
chunk := make([]byte, 7)
var buf bytes.Buffer
for i := range s {
if i%8 == 0 {
counter = 0
if i, err := strconv.ParseInt(string(chunk), 2, 64); err == nil {
buf.WriteString(string(i))
}
} else {
chunk[counter] = s[i] //i know i can use modulus here too but i was testing and an counter was easier to track and test for me
counter++
}
}
return buf.String()
}
It either seems to miss a character or add an character (or two) on conversion.
Here is a playground link showing an example of the function not working as expected.
Your function could be implemented in a simpler, more efficient manner:
func binToString(s []byte) string {
output := make([]byte, len(s)/8)
for i := 0; i < len(output); i++ {
val, err := strconv.ParseInt(string(s[i*8:(i+1)*8]), 2, 64)
if err == nil {
output[i] = byte(val)
}
}
return string(output)
}