1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/std/io/util.ts b/std/io/util.ts
index 237747a89..47e48a981 100644
--- a/std/io/util.ts
+++ b/std/io/util.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 // Copyright 2018-2020 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
-const { Buffer, mkdir, open } = Deno;
+const { mkdir, open } = Deno;
 type File = Deno.File;
 type Reader = Deno.Reader;
 import * as path from "../path/mod.ts";
-import { encode } from "../encoding/utf8.ts";
 
 /**
  * Copy bytes from one Uint8Array to another.  Bytes from `src` which don't fit
@@ -28,10 +27,6 @@ export function charCode(s: string): number {
   return s.charCodeAt(0);
 }
 
-export function stringsReader(s: string): Reader {
-  return new Buffer(encode(s).buffer);
-}
-
 /** Create or open a temporal file at specified directory with prefix and
  *  postfix
  * */