How to find out element position in slice?

Question

How does one determine the position of an element present in slice?

I need something like the following:

type intSlice []int

func (slice intSlice) p         


        

Answer 1

func index(slice []string, item string) int {
    for i, _ := range slice {
        if slice[i] == item {
            return i
        }
    }
    return -1
}

Answer 2

I had the same issue few months ago and I solved in two ways:

First method:

func Find(slice interface{}, f func(value interface{}) bool) int {
    s := reflect.ValueOf(slice)
    if s.Kind() == reflect.Slice {
        for index := 0; index < s.Len(); index++ {
            if f(s.Index(index).Interface()) {
                return index
            }
        }
    }
    return -1
}

Use example:

type UserInfo struct {
    UserId          int
}

func main() {
    var (
        destinationList []UserInfo
        userId      int = 123
    )
    
    destinationList = append(destinationList, UserInfo { 
        UserId          : 23,
    }) 
    destinationList = append(destinationList, UserInfo { 
        UserId          : 12,
    }) 
    
    idx := Find(destinationList, func(value interface{}) bool {
        return value.(UserInfo).UserId == userId
    })
    
    if idx < 0 {
        fmt.Println("not found")
    } else {
        fmt.Println(idx)    
    }
}

Second method with less computational cost:

func Search(length int, f func(index int) bool) int {
    for index := 0; index < length; index++ {
        if f(index) {
            return index
        }
    }
    return -1
}

Use example:

type UserInfo struct {
    UserId          int
}

func main() {
    var (
        destinationList []UserInfo
        userId      int = 123
    )
    
    destinationList = append(destinationList, UserInfo { 
        UserId          : 23,
    }) 
    destinationList = append(destinationList, UserInfo { 
        UserId          : 123,
    }) 
    
    idx := Search(len(destinationList), func(index int) bool {
        return destinationList[index].UserId == userId
    })
    
    if  idx < 0 {
        fmt.Println("not found")
    } else {
        fmt.Println(idx)    
    }
}

Answer 3

Sorry, there's no generic library function to do this. Go doesn't have a straight forward way of writing a function that can operate on any slice.

Your function works, although it would be a little better if you wrote it using range.

If you happen to have a byte slice, there is bytes.IndexByte.

Answer 4

You can create generic function in idiomatic go way:

func SliceIndex(limit int, predicate func(i int) bool) int {
    for i := 0; i < limit; i++ {
        if predicate(i) {
            return i
        }
    }
    return -1
}

And usage:

xs := []int{2, 4, 6, 8}
ys := []string{"C", "B", "K", "A"}
fmt.Println(
    SliceIndex(len(xs), func(i int) bool { return xs[i] == 5 }),
    SliceIndex(len(xs), func(i int) bool { return xs[i] == 6 }),
    SliceIndex(len(ys), func(i int) bool { return ys[i] == "Z" }),
    SliceIndex(len(ys), func(i int) bool { return ys[i] == "A" }))

Answer 5

You could write a function;

func indexOf(element string, data []string) (int) {
   for k, v := range data {
       if element == v {
           return k
       }
   }
   return -1    //not found.
}

This returns the index of a character/string if it matches the element. If its not found, returns a -1.

Answer 6

There is no library function for that. You have to code by your own.