strings.Split in Go

Question

The file names.txt consists of many names in the form of:

\"KELLEE\",\"JOSLYN\",\"JASON\",\"INGER\",\"INDIRA\",\"GLINDA\",\"GLENNIS\"

Does anyo

Answer 1

Split doesn't remove characters from the substrings. Your split is fine you just need to process the slice afterwards with strings.Trim(val, "\"").

for i, val := range arr {
  arr[i] = strings.Trim(val, "\"")
}

Now arr will have the leading and trailing "s removed.