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

The answer depends on what you mean by "characters". If you mean bytes then:

s := "12121211122"
lastByByte := s[len(s)-3:]

If you mean runes in a utf-8 encoded string, then:

s := "12121211122"
j := len(s)
for i := 0; i < 3 && j > 0; i++ {
    _, size := utf8.DecodeLastRuneInString(s[:j])
    j -= size
}
lastByRune := s[j:]

You can also convert the string to a []rune and operate on the rune slice, but that allocates memory.