How to read a binary file in Go

Question

I\'m completely new to Go and I\'m trying to read a binary file, either byte by byte or several bytes at a time. The documentation doesn\'t help much and I cannot find any t

Answer 1

For example, to count the number of zero bytes in a file:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    f, err := os.Open("filename")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    defer f.Close()
    data := make([]byte, 4096)
    zeroes := 0
    for {
        data = data[:cap(data)]
        n, err := f.Read(data)
        if err != nil {
            if err == io.EOF {
                break
            }
            fmt.Println(err)
            return
        }
        data = data[:n]
        for _, b := range data {
            if b == 0 {
                zeroes++
            }
        }
    }
    fmt.Println("zeroes:", zeroes)
}