How to replace a single character inside a string in Golang?

Question

I am getting a physical location address from a user and trying to arrange it to create a URL that would use later to get a JSON response from Google Geocode API.

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Answer 1

If you need to replace all occurrences of the character in the string, then use strings.ReplaceAll:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    str := "a space-separated string"
    str = strings.ReplaceAll(str, " ", ",")
    fmt.Println(str)
}

Answer 2

You can use strings.Replace.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    str := "a space-separated string"
    str = strings.Replace(str, " ", ",", -1)
    fmt.Println(str)
}

If you need to replace more than one thing, or you'll need to do the same replacement over and over, it might be better to use a strings.Replacer:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

// replacer replaces spaces with commas and tabs with commas.
// It's a package-level variable so we can easily reuse it, but
// this program doesn't take advantage of that fact.
var replacer = strings.NewReplacer(" ", ",", "\t", ",")

func main() {
    str := "a space- and\ttab-separated string"
    str = replacer.Replace(str)
    fmt.Println(str)
}

And of course if you're replacing for the purpose of encoding, such as URL encoding, then it might be better to use a function specifically for that purpose, such as url.QueryEscape