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Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding/hex')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/encoding/hex/hex.go | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/hex/hex.go b/src/encoding/hex/hex.go index 2768f1bac6..18e0c09ef3 100644 --- a/src/encoding/hex/hex.go +++ b/src/encoding/hex/hex.go @@ -94,12 +94,13 @@ func EncodeToString(src []byte) string { // DecodeString returns the bytes represented by the hexadecimal string s. func DecodeString(s string) ([]byte, error) { src := []byte(s) - dst := make([]byte, DecodedLen(len(src))) - _, err := Decode(dst, src) + // We can use the source slice itself as the destination + // because the decode loop increments by one and then the 'seen' byte is not used anymore. + len, err := Decode(src, src) if err != nil { return nil, err } - return dst, nil + return src[:len], nil } // Dump returns a string that contains a hex dump of the given data. The format |