Go Standard Library Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Open the console and create the folder chapter05/recipe07.
2. Navigate to the directory.
3. Create the rwbinary.go file with the following content:

        package main        import (          "bytes"          "encoding/binary"          "fmt"        )        func main() {          // Writing binary values          buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})          if err := binary.Write(buf, binary.BigEndian, 1.004);           err != nil {            panic(err)          }          if err := binary.Write(buf, binary.BigEndian,                   []byte("Hello")); err != nil {            panic(err)          }          // Reading the written values          var num float64          if err := binary.Read(buf, binary.BigEndian, &num);           err != nil {            panic(err)          }          fmt.Printf("float64: %.3f\n", num)          greeting := make([]byte, 5)          if err := binary.Read(buf, binary.BigEndian, &greeting);          err != nil {            panic(err)          } fmt.Printf("string: ...