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What would be the most elegant way to check if every item in a slice meets some condition? In my specific scenario, I have a slice of bytes: [16]byte. I need to check if all bytes are 0.
In JS, for example, I would do something like that:
const uint8Array = new Uint8Array([0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0])//Can be thought of as an array of "bytes"
const isEmpty = uint8Array.every(byte=>byte === 0)//Check that every "byte" is zero
console.log(isEmpty)//false
What's the cleanest and most straightforward way to do this in Go?

Answer 1

For readability and flexibility (e.g. if you need to operate on types other than byte), you may benefit from writing a small All generic function that
accepts a slice and a predicate on the element type of that slice, and
returns true if and only if the predicate is satisfied for all elements of the slice.
You'll then be free to put that generic function to use with different slices and predicates.
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
bs := []byte{15: 1} // slice of 16 bytes, all but the last one of which are zero
isZero := func(b byte) bool { return b == 0 }
fmt.Println(All(bs, isZero)) // false
}
func All[T any](ts []T, pred func(T) bool) bool {
for _, t := range ts {
if !pred(t) {
return false
}
}
return true
}
(Playground)
No need to create a library for that All function, though; a little copying is better than a little dependency.

Answer 2

It would be easy if you use the bytes package, here is an example :
func main() {
n := []byte{0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
b := bytes.ContainsRune(n, 1)
fmt.Println(b)
}
In bytes package there are multiple methods you can call for your result, like checking char, or multiple contains etc.

Answer 3

The most straightforward way is to use a range-based for loop, since as far as I'm aware, Go doesn't have built-in function similar to .ForEach.
If you don't need an index, you can omit it from the loop and you will have something similar:
isEmpty := true
for _, val := range uint8Array {
if val != 0 {
isEmpty=false
break
}
}
fmt.Println(isEmpty)
If you use the function repeatedly, you can define it as your own separate function as well.
func IsEmpty(arr *[]any) bool {
for _, val := range *arr {
if val != 0 {
return false
}
}
return true
}
Although the last one might cause issues for some data types.