Strange behaviour of strings.TrimLeft

[pikoscielniak]

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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go1.7.3

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

windows/amd64

What did you do?

I executed following test:

import (
	"testing"
	"strings"
)

func TestTrimLeft(t *testing.T) {
	trimed := strings.TrimLeft("record:edocument", "record:")

	if trimed != "edocument" {
		t.Fatalf("Expected 'edocument' got '%s' ", trimed)
	}
}

What did you expect to see?

This test failed. I wouldn't expect this. Could someone explain this to me?

What did you see instead?

I got following output from this test:

Expected 'edocument' got 'ument' 

[myitcv]

@pikoscielniak you want TrimPrefix and not TrimLeft

Please also consider asking questions like this in the go-nuts mailing list or other help forums as a first port of call. If the behaviour you are seeing is then confirmed as a bug/issue it can easily be re-raised here in the issue tracker.

[pikoscielniak]

Thanks a lot. This is what I was looking for.