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Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/encoding/json/indent.go | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/json/indent.go b/src/encoding/json/indent.go index 153109fae6..7cd9f4db18 100644 --- a/src/encoding/json/indent.go +++ b/src/encoding/json/indent.go @@ -70,8 +70,12 @@ func newline(dst *bytes.Buffer, prefix, indent string, depth int) { // indented line beginning with prefix followed by one or more // copies of indent according to the indentation nesting. // The data appended to dst does not begin with the prefix nor -// any indentation, and has no trailing newline, to make it -// easier to embed inside other formatted JSON data. +// any indentation, to make it easier to embed inside other formatted JSON data. +// Although leading space characters (space, tab, carriage return, newline) +// at the beginning of src are dropped, trailing space characters +// at the end of src are preserved and copied to dst. +// For example, if src has no trailing spaces, neither will dst; +// if src ends in a trailing newline, so will dst. func Indent(dst *bytes.Buffer, src []byte, prefix, indent string) error { origLen := dst.Len() var scan scanner |