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Task/Strip-comments-from-a-string/Go/strip-comments-from-a-string.go

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+package main
+
+import (
+    "fmt"
+    "strings"
+)
+
+const commentChars = "#;"
+
+func stripComment(source string) string {
+    if cut := strings.IndexAny(source, commentChars); cut >= 0 {
+        return source[:cut]
+    }
+    return source
+}
+
+func main() {
+    for _, s := range []string{
+        "apples, pears # and bananas",
+        "apples, pears ; and bananas",
+        "no bananas",
+    } {
+        fmt.Printf("source:   %q\n", s)
+        fmt.Printf("stripped: %q\n", stripComment(s))
+    }
+}