How to reverse a string in Go?

Question

How can we reverse a simple string in Go?

Answer 1

package reverseString

import "strings"

// ReverseString - output the reverse string of a given string s
func ReverseString(s string) string {

    strLen := len(s)

    // The reverse of a empty string is a empty string
    if strLen == 0 {
        return s
    }

    // Same above
    if strLen == 1 {
        return s
    }

    // Convert s into unicode points
    r := []rune(s)

    // Last index
    rLen := len(r) - 1

    // String new home
    rev := []string{}

    for i := rLen; i >= 0; i-- {
        rev = append(rev, string(r[i]))
    }

    return strings.Join(rev, "")
}

Test

package reverseString

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "testing"
)

func TestReverseString(t *testing.T) {

    s := "GO je úžasné!"
    r := ReverseString(s)

    fmt.Printf("Input: %s\nOutput: %s", s, r)

    revR := ReverseString(r)

    if strings.Compare(s, revR) != 0 {
        t.Errorf("Expecting: %s\n. Got: %s\n", s, revR)
    }
}

Output

Input: GO je úžasné!
Output: !énsažú ej OG
PASS
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