How to transfer hex strings to []byte directly in Go?

Question

Question is simple,

how to transfer "46447381" in to []byte{0x46,0x44,0x73,0x81}?

Solution

Simply use the hex.DecodeString() function:

s := "46447381"

data, err := hex.DecodeString(s)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("% x", data)

Output:

46 44 73 81

Try it on the Go Playground.

Note:

If you just simply print the byte slice using fmt.Println(data), the printed values will be in decimal format that's why it won't match your input string (because it is specified in hexadecimal format).
Output of fmt.Println(data) would be:

[70 68 115 129]

These are the same numbers just in decimal base.

Comments

[cuuboy]

That would be more complicated than I thought, because I just use hex.EncodeToString, I wonder why I cannot use kind of this function to let it back.

[cuuboy]

@EdmDroid yes question is simple, but that means I want a simple answer.

[cuuboy]

You're right, I'm so stupid, I thought that should not be transferred into dec, but indeed it should be, thanks. play.golang.org/p/S_blDzfpN7