Extracting substrings in Go

It looks like you’re confused by the working of slices and the string storage format, which is different from what you have in C.

  • any slice in Go stores the length (in bytes), so you don’t have to care about the cost of the len operation : there is no need to count
  • Go strings aren’t null terminated, so you don’t have to remove a null byte, and you don’t have to add 1 after slicing by adding an empty string.

To remove the last char (if it’s a one byte char), simply do

inputFmt:=input[:len(input)-1]

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