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How to trim right-hand side of a slice of bytes in Golang?

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In Go language slice is more powerful, flexible, convenient than an array, and is a lightweight data structure. The slice is a variable-length sequence which stores elements of a similar type, you are not allowed to store different type of elements in the same slice.
In the Go slice of bytes, you are allowed to trim all the ending UTF-8-encoded code points from the given slice using TrimRight() function. This function returns a subslice of the original slice by slicing off all the trailing UTF-8-encoded code points which are specified in the given string. If the given slice of bytes does not contain the specified string in its right-hand side, then this function returns the original slice without any change. It is defined under the bytes package so, you have to import bytes package in your program for accessing TrimRight function.

Syntax:

func TrimRight(ori_slice[]byte, cut_string string) []byte

Here, ori_slice is the original slice of bytes and cut_string represent a string which you want to trim in the given slice. Let us discuss this concept with the help of the given examples:

Example 1:




// Go program to illustrate the concept
// of right trim in the slice of bytes
package main
  
import (
    "bytes"
    "fmt"
)
  
func main() {
  
    // Creating and trimming
    // the slice of bytes
    // Using TrimRight function
    res1 := bytes.TrimRight([]byte("****Welcome to GeeksforGeeks****"), "*")
    res2 := bytes.TrimRight([]byte("!!!!Learning how to trim a slice of bytes@@@@"), "!@")
    res3 := bytes.TrimRight([]byte("^^Geek&&"), "$")
  
    // Display the results
    fmt.Printf("\n\nFinal Slice:\n")
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 1: %s", res1)
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 2: %s", res2)
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 3: %s", res3)
}


Output:

Final Slice:

Slice 1: ****Welcome to GeeksforGeeks
Slice 2: !!!!Learning how to trim a slice of bytes
Slice 3: ^^Geek&&

Example 2:




// Go program to illustrate the concept
// of right trim in the slice of bytes
package main
  
import (
    "bytes"
    "fmt"
)
  
func main() {
  
    // Creating and initializing 
    // the slice of bytes
    // Using shorthand declaration
  
    slice_1 := []byte{'!', '!', 'G', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's'
       'f', 'o', 'r', 'G', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's', '#', '#'}
      
    slice_2 := []byte{'*', '*', 'A', 'p', 'p', 'l', 'e', '^', '^'}
      
    slice_3 := []byte{'%', 'g', 'e', 'e', 'k', 's', '%'}
  
    // Displaying slices
    fmt.Println("Original Slice:")
    fmt.Printf("Slice 1: %s", slice_1)
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 2: %s", slice_2)
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 3: %s", slice_3)
  
    // Trimming specified trailing Unicodes 
    // points from the given slice of bytes
    // Using TrimRight function
    res1 := bytes.TrimRight(slice_1, "!#")
    res2 := bytes.TrimRight(slice_2, "^")
    res3 := bytes.TrimRight(slice_3, "@")
  
    // Display the results
    fmt.Printf("\n\nNew Slice:\n")
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 1: %s", res1)
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 2: %s", res2)
    fmt.Printf("\nSlice 3: %s", res3)
  
}


Output:

Original Slice:
Slice 1: !!GeeksforGeeks##
Slice 2: **Apple^^
Slice 3: %geeks%

New Slice:

Slice 1: !!GeeksforGeeks
Slice 2: **Apple
Slice 3: %geeks%


Last Updated : 26 Aug, 2019
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