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Trim suffix of a string in Go (Golang)

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by admin

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Overview

In GO string are UTF-8 encoded. strings package of GO provides a TrimSuffix method that can be used to remove a suffix string from the input string. If the input string doesn’t end with the given suffix, then the input string remains unchanged. Also, note that this function returns the copy of the string.

Below is the signature of the function

func TrimSuffix(s, suffix string)

Let’s look at the working code

Code:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    //This will output "removed"
    res := strings.TrimSuffix("removedtest", "test")
    fmt.Println(res)

    //The input string will remain unchanged as it doesn't contain the test as suffix
    res2 := strings.TrimSuffix("removedtes", "test")
    fmt.Println(res2)
}

Output:

removed
removedtes
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