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Boris Wilhelms
Boris Wilhelms

Reputation: 661

Find index of a substring in a string, with start index specified

I know there is strings.Index and strings.LastIndex, but they just find the first and last. Is there any function I can use, where I can specify the start index? Something like the last line in my example.

Example:

s := "go gopher, go"
fmt.Println(strings.Index(s, "go")) // Position 0
fmt.Println(strings.LastIndex(s, "go")) // Postion 11
fmt.Println(strings.Index(s, "go", 1)) // Position 3 - Start looking for "go" begining at index 1

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7394

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323913

No, but it might be simpler to apply strings.Index on a slice of the string

strings.Index(s[1:], "go")+1
strings.Index(s[n:], "go")+n

See example (for the case where the string isn't found, see OneOfOne's answer), but, as commented by Dewy Broto, one can simply test it with a 'if' statement including a simple statement:
(also called 'if' with an initialization statement)

if i := strings.Index(s[n:], sep) + n; i >= n { 
    ...
}

Upvotes: 6

OneOfOne
OneOfOne

Reputation: 99224

It's an annoying oversight, you have to create your own function.

Something like:

func indexAt(s, sep string, n int) int {
    idx := strings.Index(s[n:], sep)
    if idx > -1 {
        idx += n
    }
    return idx
}

Upvotes: 13

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