How to remove all spaces, newlines, tabs from byte array?

go, json

Solution

Using any trimming or replace function will not work in case there are spaces inside JSON strings. You would break the data, for example if you have something like `{"foo": "bar baz"}`.

Just use json.Compact.

This does exactly what you need, except that it outputs to a `bytes.Buffer`.

var json_bytes = []byte(`{
    "foo": "bar"
}`)
buffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
if err := json.Compact(buffer, json_bytes); err != nil {
     fmt.Println(err)
}

See http://play.golang.org/p/0JMCyLk4Sg for a live example.

Problem

I am writing a test where I want to compare the result of `json.Marshal` with a static json string: ``` var json = []byte(`{ "foo": "bar" }`) ``` As the result of `json.Marshal` does not have any `\n`, `\t` and spaces I thought I could easily do: ``` bytes.Trim(json, " \n\t") ``` to remove all of these characters. However unfortunately this does not work. I could write a custom trim function and use `bytes.TrimFunc` but this seems to complicated to me. What else could I do to have a json string "compressed" with as less code as possible? Best, Bo

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