Working with Go

Loops

Go uses for for all loops, there is no while or do-while loops.

For Loop

alphas := []string{"abc", "def", "ghi"}
 
// standard for loop
for i := 0; i < len(alphas); i++ {
    fmt.Printf("%d = %s \n", i, alphas[i])
}
 
// counting backwards
for i := len(alphas)-1; i >= 0; i-- {
    fmt.Printf("%d = %s \n", i, alphas[i])
}

Using Range

Iterating over an array is easier using range function.

for i, val := range alphas {
    fmt.Printf("%d = %s \n", i, val)
}

If you did not care about the value and only wanted the index

for i := range alphas {
    fmt.Println(i)
}

If you did not care about the index and only the value, you need to use the _ character.

for _, val := range alphas {
    fmt.Println(val)
}

Use For like While

x := 0
for x < 10 {
    fmt.Println(x)
    x++
}

Infinite Loop

for {
    fmt.Print(".")
}