How to get intersection of two slice in golang?

Question

Is there any efficient way to get intersection of two slices in Go?

I want to avoid nested for loop like solution

slice1 := []string{\"foo\", \"bar\",\"hello\"}         


        

Answer 1

It's a best method for intersection two slice. Time complexity is too low.

Time Complexity : O(m+n)

m = length of first slice.

n = length of second slice.

func intersection(s1, s2 []string) (inter []string) {
    hash := make(map[string]bool)
    for _, e := range s1 {
        hash[e] = true
    }
    for _, e := range s2 {
        // If elements present in the hashmap then append intersection list.
        if hash[e] {
            inter = append(inter, e)
        }
    }
    //Remove dups from slice.
    inter = removeDups(inter)
    return
}

//Remove dups from slice.
func removeDups(elements []string)(nodups []string) {
    encountered := make(map[string]bool)
    for _, element := range elements {
        if !encountered[element] {
            nodups = append(nodups, element)
            encountered[element] = true
        }
    }
    return
}