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Solution Review: Magnify a Slice

Solution Review: Magnify a Slice

This lesson discusses the solution to the challenge given in the previous lesson.

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Go (1.6.2)
package main
import "fmt"
var s []int
func main() {
	s = []int{1, 2, 3}
	fmt.Println("The length of s before enlarging is:", len(s))
	fmt.Println(s)
	s = enlarge(s, 5)	// calling function to magnify
	fmt.Println("The length of s after enlarging is:", len(s))
	fmt.Println(s)
}
func enlarge(s []int, factor int) []int {
	ns := make([]int, len(s) * factor)		// making a new slice of length len(s)*factor
	copy(ns, s)	// copying contents from s to new slice
	return ns
}

In the code above, look at the header for function enlarge at line 15: func enlarge(s []int, factor int) []int . It takes a slice s that needs to be magnified, and a factor to decide the length of a magnified slice as len(s)*factor. ...