How to remove element of struct array in loop in golang

Question

Problem

I have array of structs:

type Config struct {   Applications []Application } 

Note: Config - is a struct for json.Decode.

config = new(Config) _ = decoder.Decode(&config) 

In loop I have some condition and element deletion by key.

for i, application := range config.Applications {   if i == 1 {     config.Applications = _removeApplication(i, config.Applications)   } }  func _removeApplication(i int, list []Application) []Application {   if i < len(list)-1 {     list = append(list[:i], list[i+1:]...)   } else {     log.Print(list[i].Name)     list = list[:i]   }    return list } 

But always I have "out of range" error. What is the best way to delete element by key from array of structs?

Answer 1

Quoting from the Slice Tricks page deleting the element at index i:

a = append(a[:i], a[i+1:]...) // or a = a[:i+copy(a[i:], a[i+1:])] 

Note that if you plan to delete elements from the slice you're currently looping over, that may cause problems. And it does if the element you remove is the current one (or a previous element already looped over) because after the deletion all subsequent elements are shifted, but the range loop does not know about this and will still increment the index and you skip one element.

You can avoid this by using a downward loop:

for i := len(config.Applications) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {     application := config.Applications[i]     // Condition to decide if current element has to be deleted:     if haveToDelete {         config.Applications = append(config.Applications[:i],                 config.Applications[i+1:]...)     } } 

Answer 2

You are getting this error because you are doing a loop over a slice with an inital range of X length that became X-n because you remove some elements during loop.

If you want to delete an item at a specific index from a slice, you can do it this way:

sliceA = append(sliceA[:indexOfElementToRemove], sliceA[indexOfElementToRemove+1:]...)