Compare Strings in Golang

Application

Create new folder named src. In src folder, create new file named main.go as below:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
)

func main() {

	name1 := "mary"
	name2 := "peter"
	name3 := "anna"
	name4 := "mary"

	result1 := strings.Compare(name1, name2)
	fmt.Println("result 1:", result1)

	result2 := strings.Compare(name1, name3)
	fmt.Println("result 2:", result2)

	result3 := strings.Compare(name1, name4)
	fmt.Println("result 3:", result3)

}

Output

Open Terminal windows in Visual Studio Code and run command line: go run main.go

result 1: -1
result 2: 1
result 3: 0