Go Strings Cheat Sheet

• Check if a string starts with a substring
• Check if a string ends with a substring
• Calculate the maximum string length in a slice of strings
• Comparing strings case insensitive

Check if a string starts with a substring

package main

import (
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    strings.HasPrefix("flavio", "fla") // true
}

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Check if a string ends with a substring

package main

import (
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    strings.HasSuffix("flavio", "vio") // true
}

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Calculate the maximum string length in a slice of strings

// calculatemaxwidth given a slice of strings calculates the maximum
// length
func calculatemaxwidth(lines []string) int {
    w := 0
    for _, l := range lines {
        len := utf8.RuneCountInString(l)
        if len > w {
            w = len
        }
    }

    return w
}

Comparing strings case insensitive

Instead of running ToUpper() or ToLower() from the strings or bytes packages, use strings.EqualFold() or bytes.EqualFold(), because they are guaranteed to work across all languages.

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println(bytes.EqualFold([]byte("Go"), []byte("go")))
}

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