2012-10-11 10:58:13 -07:00

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// _Slices_ are a key data type in Go, giving a more
// powerful interface to sequences than arrays.
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
// Unlike arrays, slices are typed only by the
// elements they contain (not the number of elements).
// To create an empty slice with non-zero length, use
// the builtin `make`. Here we make a slice of `int`s
// of length `5` (initially empty-valued).
s := make([]int, 5)
fmt.Println("emp:", s)
// We can set and get just like with arrays.
s[4] = 100
fmt.Println("set:", s)
fmt.Println("get:", s[4])
// `len` returns the length of the slice as expected.
fmt.Println("len:", len(s))
// In addition to these basic operations, slices
// support several more that make them richer than
// arrays. One is the builtin `append`, which
// returns a slice containing one or more new values.
// Note that we need to accept a return value from
// append as we may get a new slice reference.
s = append(s, 6)
s = append(s, 7, 8)
fmt.Println("apd:", s)
// Slices can also be `copy`'d. Here we create an
// empty slice `c` of the same length as `s` and copy
// into `c` from `s`.
c := make([]int, len(s))
copy(c, s)
fmt.Println("cpy:", c)
// Slices support a "slice" operator, which is denoted
// with brackets containing `:`. For example, this
// gets a slice of the elements 4, 5, and 6.
l := s[4:7]
fmt.Println("sl1:", l)
// This slices up to the 7th index.
l = s[:7]
fmt.Println("sl2:", l)
// And this slices from the 4th index upwards.
l = s[4:]
fmt.Println("sl3:", l)
// We can declare and initalize a slice in a single
// line as well.
t := []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
fmt.Println("dcl:", t)
// Slices can be composed into multi-dimensional data
// structures. The length of the inner slices can
// vary, unlike with multi-dimensional arrays.
twoD := make([][]int, 3)
for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
innerLen := i + 1
twoD[i] = make([]int, innerLen)
for j := 0; j < innerLen; j++ {
twoD[i][j] = i + j
}
}
fmt.Println("2d: ", twoD)
}