github.com/spotify/syslog-redirector-golang@v0.0.0-20140320174030-4859f03d829a/blog/content/slices/prog030.go (about) 1 // Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 package main 6 7 import ( 8 "fmt" 9 ) 10 11 var buffer [256]byte 12 var slice []byte = buffer[100:150] 13 14 func PtrSubtractOneFromLength(slicePtr *[]byte) { 15 slice := *slicePtr 16 *slicePtr = slice[0 : len(slice)-1] 17 } 18 19 func main() { 20 fmt.Println("Before: len(slice) =", len(slice)) 21 PtrSubtractOneFromLength(&slice) 22 fmt.Println("After: len(slice) =", len(slice)) 23 }