How to convert uint8 slice to string

Question

What's the best way to convert from []uint8 to string?

I'm using http://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/kafka

To read events from kafka. But it does not return plain string event. It returns event with type []uint8. How can I convert this event from []uint8 to string?

Look here: [enter link description here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19223277/how-to-convert-uint8-to-string/21520223) — Daniel, Jun 18 '19 at 04:53
Simply `string(uint8slice)`. See [How to convert \[\]int8 to string](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28848187/how-to-convert-int8-to-string/28848879?r=SearchResults#28848879). — icza, Jun 18 '19 at 06:22

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '19 at 09:26

byte is an alias for uint8, which means that a slice of uint8) (aka []uint8) is also a slice of byte (aka []byte).

And byte slices and strings are directly convertible, due to the fact that strings are backed by byte slices:

myByteSlice := []byte{ ... }     // same as myByteSlice := []uint8{ ... }
myString := string(myByteSlice)  // myString is a string representation of the byte slice
myOtherSlice := []byte(myString) // Converted back to byte slice

How to convert uint8 slice to string

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