Chunk a slice in Go

Splits a slice into fixed-size pieces using slice expressions.

func chunk(items []int, size int) [][]int {
    var out [][]int
    for size < len(items) {
        out = append(out, items[:size])
        items = items[size:]
    }
    return append(out, items)
}

Keywords and builtins used here

• append
• for
• func
• int
• len
• return
• var

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Step 7 of 9 in Arrays, slices & maps, step 22 of 30 in Language basics.

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