How to reverse a string in Go?

Question

How can we reverse a simple string in Go?

Answer 1

From Go example projects: golang/example/stringutil/reverse.go, by Andrew Gerrand

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// Reverse returns its argument string reversed rune-wise left to right.
func Reverse(s string) string {
    r := []rune(s)
    for i, j := 0, len(r)-1; i < len(r)/2; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
        r[i], r[j] = r[j], r[i]
    }
    return string(r)
}

Go Playground for reverse a string

After reversing string "bròwn", the correct result should be "nwòrb", not "nẁorb".
Note the grave above the letter o.

---

For preserving Unicode combining characters such as "as⃝df̅" with reverse result "f̅ds⃝a",
please refer to another code listed below:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string#Go

Answer 2

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
ok      github.com/alesr/reverse-string 0.098s

Answer 3

In Go1 rune is a builtin type.

func Reverse(s string) string {
    runes := []rune(s)
    for i, j := 0, len(runes)-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
        runes[i], runes[j] = runes[j], runes[i]
    }
    return string(runes)
}

Answer 4

A simple stroke with rune:

func ReverseString(s string) string {
    runes := []rune(s)
    size := len(runes)
    for i := 0; i < size/2; i++ {
        runes[size-i-1], runes[i] = runes[i],  runes[size-i-1]
    }
    return string(runes)
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(ReverseString("Abcdefg 汉语 The God"))
}

: doG ehT 语汉 gfedcbA

Answer 5

Yet Another Solution (tm) :

package main 
import "fmt"

type Runes []rune

func (s Runes) Reverse() (cp Runes) {
    l := len(s); cp = make(Runes, l)
    // i <= 1/2 otherwise it will mess up with odd length strings
    for i := 0; i <= l/2; i++ { 
        cp[i], cp[l-1-i] = s[l-1-i], s[i] 
    }
    return cp
}

func (s Runes) String() string {
    return string(s)
}

func main() { 
    input := "The quick brown 狐 jumped over the lazy 犬 +odd" 
    r := Runes(input)
    output := r.Reverse()
    valid := string(output.Reverse()) == input
    fmt.Println(len(r), len(output), r, output.Reverse(), valid)
}

Answer 6

Building on Stephan202's original suggestion, and appears to work for unicode strings:

import "strings";

func Reverse( orig string ) string {
    var c []string = strings.Split( orig, "", 0 );

    for i, j := 0, len(c)-1; i < j; i, j = i+1, j-1 {
        c[i], c[j] = c[j], c[i]
    }

    return strings.Join( c, "" );
}

Alternate, not using strings package, but not 'unicode-safe':

func Reverse( s string ) string {
    b := make([]byte, len(s));
    var j int = len(s) - 1;
    for i := 0; i <= j; i++ {
        b[j-i] = s[i]
    }

    return string ( b );
}