Map and filter

The next code example demonstrates the use of a few standard intermediate functions: map and filter.

Note

The code in this example can be copy/pasted into The Go playground, which is a service that takes your Go program, compiles, links, and runs your program with the latest version of Go inside a sandbox and then returns the output to the screen. You can find it at https://play.golang.org/.

Executable commands must always use package main. We can separate each import statement on a separate line for readability.

External packages can be referenced using their remote GitHub repository path. We can preface long package names with a shorter alias. The go_utils package can now be referenced with the u letter. Note that if we aliased a package name with _, its exported functions can be referenced directly in our Go code without indicating which package it came from:

package main
import (
   "fmt"
   "log"
   "strings"
   "errors"
   u "github.com/go-goodies/go_utils"
)

Note

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