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Versions in this module

v1

v1.2.1

Oct 16, 2026

v1.2.0

Sep 16, 2024

Changes in this version

type Reader

+ func (r *Reader) InputOffset() int64

+ func (r *Reader) PeekByte() (b byte, err error)

v1.1.2

Dec 11, 2022

v1.1.1

Nov 24, 2020

v1.1.0

Jul 30, 2020

Changes in this version

type Reader

+ func NewReaderBuf(r io.Reader, buf []byte) *Reader

type Writer

+ func NewWriterBuf(w io.Writer, buf []byte) *Writer

v1.0.0

Sep 5, 2017

Changes in this version

+ const DefaultReaderSize

+ const DefaultWriterSize

+ type Reader struct

+ func NewReader(r io.Reader) *Reader

+ func NewReaderSize(r io.Reader, n int) *Reader

+ func (r *Reader) BufferSize() int

+ func (r *Reader) Buffered() int

+ func (r *Reader) Next(n int) ([]byte, error)

+ func (r *Reader) Peek(n int) ([]byte, error)

+ func (r *Reader) Read(b []byte) (int, error)

+ func (r *Reader) ReadByte() (byte, error)

+ func (r *Reader) ReadFull(b []byte) (int, error)

+ func (r *Reader) Reset(rd io.Reader)

+ func (r *Reader) Skip(n int) (int, error)

+ func (r *Reader) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (int64, error)

+ type Writer struct

+ func NewWriter(w io.Writer) *Writer

+ func NewWriterSize(w io.Writer, size int) *Writer

+ func (w *Writer) BufferSize() int

+ func (w *Writer) Buffered() int

+ func (w *Writer) Flush() error

+ func (w *Writer) Next(n int) ([]byte, error)

+ func (w *Writer) ReadFrom(r io.Reader) (int64, error)

+ func (w *Writer) Write(p []byte) (int, error)

+ func (w *Writer) WriteByte(b byte) error

+ func (w *Writer) WriteString(s string) (int, error)