go - print without space between items

Question

fmt.Println("a","b")

I want to print the two strings without space padding, namely "ab", but the above will print "a b".

Go fmt

Do I just switch to using Printf ?

fmt.Printf("%s%s\n","a","b")

Answer 1

Plain old print will work if you make the last element "\n".
It will also be easier to read if you aren't used to printf style formatting.

See here on play

fmt.Println("a","b")
fmt.Print("a","b","\n")
fmt.Printf("%s%s\n","a","b")

will print:

a b
ab
ab

Answer 2

As it can be found in the doc:

Println formats using the default formats for its operands and writes to standard output. Spaces are always added between operands and a newline is appended. It returns the number of bytes written and any write error encountered.

So you either need to do what you already said or you can concatenate the strings before printing:

fmt.Println("a"+"b")

Depending on your usecase you can use strings.Join(myStrings, "") for that purpose.

Answer 3

Println relies on doPrint(args, true, true), where first argument is addspace and second is addnewline. So Prinln ith multiple arguments will always print space.

It seems there is no call of doPrint(args, false, true) which is what you want. Printf may be a solution, Print also but you should add a newline.