Extracting substrings in Go

Question

I\'m trying to read an entire line from the console (including whitespace), then process it. Using bufio.ReadString, the newline character is read together with the input, s

Answer 1

It looks like you're confused by the working of slices and the string storage format, which is different from what you have in C.

• any slice in Go stores the length (in bytes), so you don't have to care about the cost of the len operation : there is no need to count
• Go strings aren't null terminated, so you don't have to remove a null byte, and you don't have to add 1 after slicing by adding an empty string.

To remove the last char (if it's a one byte char), simply do

inputFmt:=input[:len(input)-1]