bytes, strings: add TrimPrefix and TrimSuffix
Everybody either gets confused and thinks this is
TrimLeft/TrimRight or does this by hand which gets
repetitive looking.
R=rsc, kevlar
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7239044
diff --git a/src/pkg/bytes/example_test.go b/src/pkg/bytes/example_test.go
index dc66b6a..ad2dbc6 100644
--- a/src/pkg/bytes/example_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/bytes/example_test.go
@@ -66,3 +66,20 @@
// Found it!
}
}
+
+func ExampleTrimSuffix() {
+ var b = []byte("Hello, goodbye, etc!")
+ b = bytes.TrimSuffix(b, []byte("goodbye, etc!"))
+ b = bytes.TrimSuffix(b, []byte("gopher"))
+ b = append(b, bytes.TrimSuffix([]byte("world!"), []byte("x!"))...)
+ os.Stdout.Write(b)
+ // Output: Hello, world!
+}
+
+func ExampleTrimPrefix() {
+ var b = []byte("Goodbye,, world!")
+ b = bytes.TrimPrefix(b, []byte("Goodbye,"))
+ b = bytes.TrimPrefix(b, []byte("See ya,"))
+ fmt.Printf("Hello%s", b)
+ // Output: Hello, world!
+}
