How does one determine the position of an element present in slice?
I need something like the following:
type intSlice []int
func (slice intSlice) pos(value int) int {
for p, v := range slice {
if (v == value) {
return p
}
}
return -1
}
Sorry, there's no generic library function to do this. Go doesn't have a straight forward way of writing a function that can operate on any slice.
Your function works, although it would be a little better if you wrote it using range
.
If you happen to have a byte slice, there is bytes.IndexByte.
You can create generic function in idiomatic go way:
func SliceIndex(limit int, predicate func(i int) bool) int {
for i := 0; i < limit; i++ {
if predicate(i) {
return i
}
}
return -1
}
And usage:
xs := []int{2, 4, 6, 8}
ys := []string{"C", "B", "K", "A"}
fmt.Println(
SliceIndex(len(xs), func(i int) bool { return xs[i] == 5 }),
SliceIndex(len(xs), func(i int) bool { return xs[i] == 6 }),
SliceIndex(len(ys), func(i int) bool { return ys[i] == "Z" }),
SliceIndex(len(ys), func(i int) bool { return ys[i] == "A" }))
There is no library function for that. You have to code by your own.
You could write a function;
func indexOf(element string, data []string) (int) {
for k, v := range data {
if element == v {
return k
}
}
return -1 //not found.
}
This returns the index of a character/string if it matches the element. If its not found, returns a -1.
Another option is to sort the slice using the sort package, then search for the thing you are looking for:
package main
import (
"sort"
"log"
)
var ints = [...]int{74, 59, 238, -784, 9845, 959, 905, 0, 0, 42, 7586, -5467984, 7586}
func main() {
data := ints
a := sort.IntSlice(data[0:])
sort.Sort(a)
pos := sort.SearchInts(a, -784)
log.Println("Sorted: ", a)
log.Println("Found at index ", pos)
}
prints
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Sorted: [-5467984 -784 0 0 42 59 74 238 905 959 7586 7586 9845]
2009/11/10 23:00:00 Found at index 1
This works for the basic types and you can always implement the sort interface for your own type if you need to work on a slice of other things. See http://golang.org/pkg/sort
Depends on what you are doing though.
func index(slice []string, item string) int {
for i, _ := range slice {
if slice[i] == item {
return i
}
}
return -1
}