How to split a string and assign it to variables

Question

In Python it is possible to split a string and assign it to variables:

ip, port = \'127.0.0.1:5432\'.split(\':\')

but in Go it does not see

Answer 1

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    strs := strings.Split("127.0.0.1:5432", ":")
    ip := strs[0]
    port := strs[1]
    fmt.Println(ip, port)
}

Here is the definition for strings.Split

// Split slices s into all substrings separated by sep and returns a slice of
// the substrings between those separators.
//
// If s does not contain sep and sep is not empty, Split returns a
// slice of length 1 whose only element is s.
//
// If sep is empty, Split splits after each UTF-8 sequence. If both s
// and sep are empty, Split returns an empty slice.
//
// It is equivalent to SplitN with a count of -1.
func Split(s, sep string) []string { return genSplit(s, sep, 0, -1) }

Answer 2

As a side note, you can include the separators while splitting the string in Go. To do so, use strings.SplitAfter as in the example below.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("%q\n", strings.SplitAfter("z,o,r,r,o", ","))
}

Answer 3

There's are multiple ways to split a string :

1. If you want to make it temporary then split like this:

_

import net package

host, port, err := net.SplitHostPort("0.0.0.1:8080")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error is splitting : "+err.error());
//do you code here
}
fmt.Println(host, port)

2. Split based on struct :

   • Create a struct and split like this

_

type ServerDetail struct {
    Host       string
    Port       string
    err        error
}

ServerDetail = net.SplitHostPort("0.0.0.1:8080") //Specific for Host and Port

Now use in you code like ServerDetail.Host and ServerDetail.Port

If you don't want to split specific string do it like this:

type ServerDetail struct {
    Host       string
    Port       string
}

ServerDetail = strings.Split([Your_String], ":") // Common split method

and use like ServerDetail.Host and ServerDetail.Port.

That's All.

Answer 4

The IPv6 addresses for fields like RemoteAddr from http.Request are formatted as "[::1]:53343"

So net.SplitHostPort works great:

package main

    import (
        "fmt"
        "net"
    )

    func main() {
        host1, port, err := net.SplitHostPort("127.0.0.1:5432")
        fmt.Println(host1, port, err)

        host2, port, err := net.SplitHostPort("[::1]:2345")
        fmt.Println(host2, port, err)

        host3, port, err := net.SplitHostPort("localhost:1234")
        fmt.Println(host3, port, err)
    }

Output is:

127.0.0.1 5432 <nil>
::1 2345 <nil>
localhost 1234 <nil>

Answer 5

**In this function you can able to split the function by golang using array of strings**

func SplitCmdArguments(args []string) map[string]string {
    m := make(map[string]string)
    for _, v := range args {
        strs := strings.Split(v, "=")
        if len(strs) == 2 {
            m[strs[0]] = strs[1]
        } else {
            log.Println("not proper arguments", strs)
        }
    }
    return m
}

Answer 6

Since go is flexible an you can create your own python style split ...

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "errors"
)

type PyString string

func main() {
    var py PyString
    py = "127.0.0.1:5432"
    ip, port , err := py.Split(":")       // Python Style
    fmt.Println(ip, port, err)
}

func (py PyString) Split(str string) ( string, string , error ) {
    s := strings.Split(string(py), str)
    if len(s) < 2 {
        return "" , "", errors.New("Minimum match not found")
    }
    return s[0] , s[1] , nil
}