Golang : Delete item from slice based on index/key position
Problem :
You want to delete an element from a slice or array and you know the index(position number) of the element. What is the quick way to delete the element?
Solution :
You can use the append()
function to sort of "skip" the element that you want to remove before copying the rest of the elements to a new slice or array.
For example :
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
strSlice := []string{"abc", "xyz", "def", "ghi", "jkl"}
fmt.Println("Before delete")
for k, v := range strSlice {
fmt.Printf("key : %v, value : %v \n", k, v)
}
// we want to remove xyz and the index/key number associated
// with it is 1
i := 1
newSlice := append(strSlice[:i], strSlice[i+1:]...)
fmt.Println("After delete")
for k, v := range newSlice {
fmt.Printf("key : %v, value : %v \n", k, v)
}
}
Output :
Before delete
key : 0, value : abc
key : 1, value : xyz
key : 2, value : def
key : 3, value : ghi
key : 4, value : jkl
After delete
key : 0, value : abc
key : 1, value : def
key : 2, value : ghi
key : 3, value : jkl
p/s : This solution is good as long the element is not a pointer. Otherwise, you gonna have memory leak issue.
Reference :
See also : Golang : Delete duplicate items from a slice/array
By Adam Ng
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