Golang : Count leading or ending zeros(any item of interest) example




Problem:

You want to count the number of leading spaces or zeros in a string such as

000-123-456 , ____abc ( _ = spaces)

or

ending hash and dollar symbols in a string such as

1123###, CALLMEMAYBE$$$

How to calculate the number of item of interest in a string?

Solution:

In Golang, a string a can be treated like a slice(array). Use for loop to iterate over the string, scan for item of interest and increase the counter whenever a match is found.

Here is an example on how to count number of leading and ending item of interest in a string.

Here you go!

 package main

 import (
 "fmt"
 "unicode/utf8"
 )

 func countLeading(str string, item rune) int {
 counter := 0
 for _, value := range str {
 if value == item {
 counter++
 } else {
 break
 }
 }
 return counter
 }

 //https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-reverse-a-string-with-unicode

 func Reverse(s string) string {
 totalLength := len(s)
 buffer := make([]byte, totalLength)
 for i := 0; i < totalLength; {
 r, size := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(s[i:])
 i += size
 utf8.EncodeRune(buffer[totalLength-i:], r)
 }
 return string(buffer)
 }

 func countBackward(str string, item rune) int {
 // reverse str first
 reversedStr := Reverse(str)

 reverseCounter := 0
 for _, value := range reversedStr {
 if value == item {
 reverseCounter++
 } else {
 break
 }
 }
 return reverseCounter
 }

 func main() {

 spaceStr := "  2 spaces"
 fmt.Println("["+spaceStr+"] has : ", countLeading(spaceStr, ' '), " leading spaces ")

 threeZerosStr := "000 3 zeros"
 fmt.Println("["+threeZerosStr+"] has : ", countLeading(threeZerosStr, '0'), " leading zeros ")

 eightZerosStr := "00000000 8 zeros"
 fmt.Println("["+eightZerosStr+"] has : ", countLeading(eightZerosStr, '0'), " leading zeros ")

 poundStr := "## 2 hash symbols"
 fmt.Println("["+poundStr+"] has : ", countLeading(poundStr, '#'), " leading # symbols ")

 suffixPoundStr := "##$ # CALLMEMAYBE ###"
 fmt.Println("["+suffixPoundStr+"] has : ", countBackward(suffixPoundStr, '#'), " ending # symbols ")
 }

Output:

[ 2 spaces] has : 2 leading spaces

[000 3 zeros] has : 3 leading zeros

[00000000 8 zeros] has : 8 leading zeros

[## 2 hash symbols] has : 2 leading # symbols

[##$ # CALLMEMAYBE ###] has : 3 ending # symbols

Notice that in the string [##$ # CALLMEMAYBE ###] the leading ##$ is ignored and not included in the calculation.

Hope this helps and happy coding!

References:

https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-reverse-a-string-with-unicode

https://socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-print-leading-padding-zero-or-spaces-in-fmt-printf

  See also : Golang : Convert octal value to string to deal with leading zero problem





By Adam Ng

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