How to get the last X Characters of a Golang String?

Question

If I have the string \"12121211122\" and I want to get the last 3 characters (e.g. \"122\"), is that possible in Go? I\'ve looked in the string package and didn\'t

Answer 1

You can use a slice expression on a string to get the last three bytes.

s      := "12121211122"
first3 := s[0:3]
last3  := s[len(s)-3:]

Or if you're using unicode you can do something like:

s      := []rune("世界世界世界")
first3 := string(s[0:3])
last3  := string(s[len(s)-3:])

Check Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go and Slice Tricks.