Strings Concatention In Go
development golangIn today’s snippet, let’s look at how to use string builder and bytes buffer to concatenate a list of strings. You can always use the + operator to concatenate strings, but it is memory inefficient just like in so many other languages. Each time + is used to concatenate a string, it allocates a new string in memory. This is because, like in most languages, strings in Go is immutable. To avoid this inefficiency, we can use Go’s strings.Builder and bytes.Buffer type. Let’s look at how we can use these types to concatenate strings.
package main
import (
"bytes"
"fmt"
"strings"
)
func main() {
// Using strings.Builder
var sb strings.Builder
words := []string{"welcome", "to", "strings", "concatenation", "tutorial"}
for i, w := range words {
sb.WriteString(w)
if i < len(words)-1 {
sb.WriteString(" ")
}
}
fmt.Printf("Result: \"%s\"\n", sb.String())
sb.Reset()
// Using bytes.Buffer
var bb bytes.Buffer
for i, w := range words {
bb.WriteString(w)
if i < len(words)-1 {
bb.WriteString(" ")
}
}
fmt.Printf("Result: \"%s\"\n", bb.String())
// Using strings.Join to concatenate a list of strings.
result := strings.Join(words, " ")
fmt.Printf("Result: \"%s\"\n", result)
}
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