How to delete an element from a Slice in Golang

Question

fmt.Println(\"Enter position to delete::\")
fmt.Scanln(&pos)

new_arr := make([]int, (len(arr) - 1))
k := 0
for i := 0; i < (len(arr) - 1); {
    if i != pos {
           


        

Answer 1

Find a way here without relocating.

• changes order

a := []string{"A", "B", "C", "D", "E"}
i := 2

// Remove the element at index i from a.
a[i] = a[len(a)-1] // Copy last element to index i.
a[len(a)-1] = ""   // Erase last element (write zero value).
a = a[:len(a)-1]   // Truncate slice.

fmt.Println(a) // [A B E D]

• keep order

a := []string{"A", "B", "C", "D", "E"}
i := 2

// Remove the element at index i from a.
copy(a[i:], a[i+1:]) // Shift a[i+1:] left one index.
a[len(a)-1] = ""     // Erase last element (write zero value).
a = a[:len(a)-1]     // Truncate slice.

fmt.Println(a) // [A B D E]

Answer 2

From the book The Go Programming Language

To remove an element from the middle of a slice, preserving the order of the remaining elements, use copy to slide the higher-numbered elements down by one to fill the gap:

func remove(slice []int, i int) []int {
  copy(slice[i:], slice[i+1:])
  return slice[:len(slice)-1]
}

Answer 3

I take the below approach to remove the item in slice. This helps in readability for others. And also immutable.

func remove(items []string, item string) []string {
    newitems := []string{}

    for _, i := range items {
        if i != item {
            newitems = append(newitems, i)
        }
    }

    return newitems
}

Answer 4

here is the playground example with pointers in it. https://play.golang.org/p/uNpTKeCt0sH

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

type t struct {
    a int
    b string
}

func (tt *t) String() string{
    return fmt.Sprintf("[%d %s]", tt.a, tt.b)
}

func remove(slice []*t, i int) []*t {
  copy(slice[i:], slice[i+1:])
  return slice[:len(slice)-1]
}

func main() {
    a := []*t{&t{1, "a"}, &t{2, "b"}, &t{3, "c"}, &t{4, "d"}, &t{5, "e"}, &t{6, "f"}}
    k := a[3]
    a = remove(a, 3)
    fmt.Printf("%v  ||  %v", a, k)
}

Answer 5

Maybe you can try this method:

// DelEleInSlice delete an element from slice by index
//  - arr: the reference of slice
//  - index: the index of element will be deleted
func DelEleInSlice(arr interface{}, index int) {
    vField := reflect.ValueOf(arr)
    value := vField.Elem()
    if value.Kind() == reflect.Slice || value.Kind() == reflect.Array {
        result := reflect.AppendSlice(value.Slice(0, index), value.Slice(index+1, value.Len()))
        value.Set(result)
    }
}

Usage:

arrInt := []int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
arrStr := []string{"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5"}
DelEleInSlice(&arrInt, 3)
DelEleInSlice(&arrStr, 4)
fmt.Println(arrInt)
fmt.Println(arrStr)

Result:

0, 1, 2, 4, 5
"0", "1", "2", "3", "5"

Answer 6

No need to check every single element unless you care contents and you can utilize slice append. try it out

pos := 0
arr := []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9}
fmt.Println("input your position")
fmt.Scanln(&pos)
/* you need to check if negative input as well */
if (pos < len(arr)){
    arr = append(arr[:pos], arr[pos+1:]...)
} else {
    fmt.Println("position invalid")
}