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Reputation: 1003
How to read at least N bytes in Go
How do you ensure you get at least n bytes when reading from a file in Go? The function seems to return the number of bytes you got, but I would rather just wait until more bytes are available. Is this possible without doing a bunch of manual plumbing?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1019
Answers (1)
Krzysztof Kowalczyk
Reputation: 3563
Use io.ReadAtLeast() function: http://golang.org/pkg/io/#ReadAtLeast
Upvotes: 3
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