Golang : Convert string to array/slice

Just a note for my own self. Hope it will be useful for you.

Problem :

You have a string like this :

apple orange durian pear

and you want to convert this string into an array

Solution :

Use strings.Fields() function to instantly convert the string into an array.

 package main

 import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
 )

 func main() {
  str := "apple orange durian pear"

  strArray := strings.Fields(str)

  fmt.Println(strArray)
  fmt.Println(strArray[1:3])
 }

Output :

[apple orange durian pear]

[orange durian]

Reference :

http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#Fields