til/content/posts/golang-split-by-space.md

title	date	draft	tags	images
Split on spaces in Go	2020-09-18	false	go golang	https://opengraph.cluster.fun/opengraph/?siteTitle=Today%20I%20learnt...&title=Split%20on%20spaces%20in%20Go&tags=golang%2Cprogramming%2Carrays&image=https%3A%2F%2Fmarcusnoble.co.uk%2Fimages%2Fmarcus.jpg&twitter=Marcus_Noble_&github=AverageMarcus&website=www.MarcusNoble.co.uk

While looking to split a multiline and space separated string and not having any luck with strings.Split() I came across this somewhat oddly names function:

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    input := `This is 
a multiline, space 
separated string`

    output := strings.Fields(input)

    fmt.Println(output) // ["This", "is", "a", "multiline,", "space", "separated", "string"]
}