Index out of range

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Why does this program crash?

a := []int{1, 2, 3}
for i := 1; i <= len(a); i++ {
	fmt.Println(a[i])
}

panic: runtime error: index out of range

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
	../main.go:3 +0xe0

Answer

In the last iteration, i equals len(a) which is outside the bounds of a.

Arrays, slices and strings are indexed starting from zero so the values of a are found at a[0], a[1], a[2], …, a[len(a)-1].

Loop from 0 to len(a)-1 instead.

for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ {
	fmt.Println(a[i])
}

Or, better yet, use a range loop.

for _, n := range a {
	fmt.Println(n)
}

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