package main import ( "bytes" "fmt" ) // NormalizeNewlines normalizes \r\n (windows) and \r (mac) // into \n (unix) func NormalizeNewlines(d []byte) []byte { // replace CR LF \r\n (windows) with LF \n (unix) d = bytes.Replace(d, []byte{13, 10}, []byte{10}, -1) // replace CF \r (mac) with LF \n (unix) d = bytes.Replace(d, []byte{13}, []byte{10}, -1) return d } func main() { d := []byte("new\r\nline") d = NormalizeNewlines(d) fmt.Printf("%#v\n", string(d)) }