Go: Split a string using regexp delimiter

Use the Split method to slice a string into substrings separated by the regexp. It returns a slice of the substrings between those expression matches. A return value of nil indicates no match.

The method takes an integer argument n; if n >= 0, the function returns at most n matches.

a := regexp.MustCompile(`a`)
fmt.Printf("%q\n", a.Split("banana", -1)) // ["b" "n" "n" ""]
fmt.Printf("%q\n", a.Split("banana", 0))  // [] (nil slice)
fmt.Printf("%q\n", a.Split("banana", 1))  // ["banana"]
fmt.Printf("%q\n", a.Split("banana", 2))  // ["b" "nana"]

zp := regexp.MustCompile(`z+`)
fmt.Printf("%q\n", zp.Split("pizza", -1)) // ["pi" "a"]
fmt.Printf("%q\n", zp.Split("pizza", 0))  // [] (nil slice)
fmt.Printf("%q\n", zp.Split("pizza", 1))  // ["pizza"]
fmt.Printf("%q\n", zp.Split("pizza", 2))  // ["pi" "a"]