How to convert uint32 to string?

Question

I need to convert an uint32 to string. How can I do that? strconv.Itoa doesn't seem to work.

Long story:
I need to convert an UID received through the imap package to string so that I can set it later as a sequence. As a side note I'm wondering why such conversions are difficult in Go. A cast string(t) could have been so much easier.

Answer 1

I would do this using strconv.FormatUint:

import "strconv"  var u uint32 = 17 var s = strconv.FormatUint(uint64(u), 10) // "17" 

Note that the expected parameter is uint64, so you have to cast your uint32 first. There is no specific FormatUint32 function.