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// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Package envutil provides utilities for working with environment variables.
package envutil
import "strings"
// Dedup returns a copy of env with any duplicates removed, in favor of
// later values.
// Items are expected to be on the normal environment "key=value" form.
// If caseInsensitive is true, the case of keys is ignored.
func Dedup(caseInsensitive bool, env []string) []string {
out := make([]string, 0, len(env))
saw := map[string]int{} // to index in the array
for _, kv := range env {
eq := strings.Index(kv, "=")
if eq < 1 {
out = append(out, kv)
continue
}
k := kv[:eq]
if caseInsensitive {
k = strings.ToLower(k)
}
if dupIdx, isDup := saw[k]; isDup {
out[dupIdx] = kv
} else {
saw[k] = len(out)
out = append(out, kv)
}
}
return out
}