Overview

In GO string are UTF-8 encoded. strings package of GO provides a TrimPrefix method that can be used to remove a prefix string from the input string. If the input string doesn’t start with the given prefix, then the input string remains unchanged. Also, note that this function returns the copy of the string.

Below is the signature of the function

func TrimPrefix(s, prefix string) string

Let’s look at the working code

Code

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {

    //This will output removed
    res := strings.TrimPrefix("testremoved", "test")
    fmt.Println(res)

    //The input string will remain unchanged as it doesn't contain the test as prefix
    res2 := strings.TrimPrefix("tesremoved", "test")
    fmt.Println(res2)
}

Output:

removed
tesremoved