I want to log port I/O operations to text file with Go language. I wrote such a function:
func trace (buffer []byte){
f, err := os.OpenFile("trace.log", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
if err != nil {
return
}
defer f.Close()
for _, val := range buffer{
if _, err := f.Write([]byte{val});err!=nil{return}
}
}
But f.Write method writes to file ASCII string equivalent, but not []byte values. I need hexadecimal values, not strings in my log. I can not understand, why code f.Write([]byte{"string"})
is valid, but something like f.Write([]byte{fmt.Spirintf("%x", val)})
does not compile...
If I understood correctly your question, you are looking for a solution to write to log the hexadecimal value of an ASCII string? ex. "41" == { 0x34, 0x31 }? If so, the code you are looking for is:
f.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("%x", buffer )))
Fnally, my working code is:
func trace (buffer []byte){
if !Debug{return}
f, err := os.OpenFile("trace.log", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
if err != nil {
return
}
defer f.Close()
date:=fmt.Sprintf("%v", time.Now().Format("2018-01-02 15:01:02 PM Jan Mon"))
if _, err := f.Write([]byte(date+"
"));err!=nil{return}
var counter int = 0
for _, val := range buffer{
if counter == 16{
if _, err := f.Write([]byte("
"));err!=nil{return}
counter=0
}
fmt.Fprintf(f, "%02x ", val)
counter++
}
if _, err := f.Write([]byte("
"));err!=nil{return}
}