How to reset or discard the buffered data - go

Question

Not able to reset or discard the buffer.
I am trying to get the data over the serial port where I am getting data packet of some fixed length for every 10 seconds. I have an infinite for loop to receive the data packets continuously. After receiving the new data packet I am resetting the buffer but when I receive the next data packet, it overwrites the buffer and I get mixed data packet.
Let say I should receive packet abcdef continuously for every n second. But when I try the following code I am receiving packet bcdefa then after n second cdefab then defabc and so on
package main
import (
"bufio"
"log"
"time"
"github.com/tarm/serial"
)
func main() {
c := &serial.Config{Name: "/dev/ttyUSB0", Baud: 57600}
s, err := serial.OpenPort(c)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
return
}
for {
time.Sleep(time.Second / 2)
reader := bufio.NewReader(s)
pck, err := reader.Peek(46)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
}
go parse(pck)
reader.Reset(s)
}
}
How do I reset or discard the buffer data effectively so that I will receive the exact data packet.

Answer 1

bare in mind i cant check what i m saying here...
1/ you must not instantiate the bufio reader at each iteration
2/ bufio.Reader.Peek does NOT advance the reader
https://golang.org/pkg/bufio/#Reader.Peek
3/ Unless you get a malformed packet, i think you dont need to reset at all.
4/ Please indent your code at play.golang.org
5/ You are not checking the read error for termination
6/ All package i can found to work with serial ports in go exposes an instance of io.Reader, so it might be useless to use an additional bufio.Reader. I suspect you r using https://godoc.org/github.com/tarm/serial#OpenPort
This is probably not the definitive answer, but it should help.
package main
import (
"io"
"log"
"time"
)
func main() {
s, err := serial.OpenPort(c)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
pck := make([]byte, 46)
for {
time.Sleep(time.Second / 2)
n, err := s.Read(pck)
if err != nil {
if err == io.EOF {
break
}
log.Println(err)
}
pck = pck[:n]
go parse(pck)
}
}