Thank you. I got it now. // only red part
*resp.(*string) // string pointer (type) *resp.(*string) // convert interface type to string pointer type *resp.(*string) // *dereferences* the pointer On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 6:40:25 PM UTC+1, Sathish VJ wrote: > > if resp is an interface, then resp.(string) *type asserts* it into a > string. And that will be ok if the underlying type is a string. > > In the question that I asked, the underlying type was not a string, but a > pointer to a string. So he type asserted it into a pointer of string type. > resp.(*pointer). > Now that we have a pointer to the string, we set it's value as > *strPtr="string value". > > On Monday, 21 November 2016 22:56:29 UTC+5:30, Ali Altun wrote: >> >> >> Whats is the meaning of *resp.(*string) = "abcd" . I have not seen >> this before. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
