What is the difference between []string and …string in golang?

Question

In the Go language,

[]string is a string array

and we also use ...string as a parameter.

What is the difference?

Functi

Answer 1

It simplifies your function parameters. Here is an example(https://play.golang.org/p/euMuy6IvaM): Method SampleEllipsis accepts from zero to many parameters of the same type but in the method SampleArray it is mandatory args to be declared.

package main

import "fmt"

func SampleEllipsis(args ...string) {
    fmt.Printf("Sample ellipsis : %+v\n",args)
}


func SampleArray(args []string) {
    fmt.Println("Sample array ")
    SampleEllipsis(args...)
}

func main() {
    // Method one
    SampleEllipsis([]string{"A", "B", "C"}...)
    // Method two
    SampleEllipsis("A", "B", "C")
    // Method three
    SampleEllipsis()

    // Simple array
    SampleArray([]string{"A", "B", "C"})

    // Simple array
    SampleArray([]string{})

}

Returns :

Sample ellipsis : [A B C]
Sample ellipsis : [A B C]
Sample ellipsis : []
Sample array 
Sample ellipsis : [A B C]
Sample array 
Sample ellipsis : []