"Path": "/ref/spec"
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<h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language as it was for
language version 1.17, in October 2021, before the introduction of generics.
It is provided for historical interest.
The current reference manual can be found <a href="/doc/go_spec.html">here</a>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
</p>

	fmt.Printf("%q\n", bytes.Split([]byte("a,b,c"), []byte(",")))
	fmt.Printf("%q\n", bytes.Split([]byte("a man a plan a canal panama"), []byte("a ")))
	fmt.Printf("%q\n", bytes.Split([]byte(" xyz "), []byte("")))
	fmt.Printf("%q\n", bytes.Split([]byte(""), []byte("Bernardo O'Higgins")))
	// Output:
	// ["a" "b" "c"]
	// ["" "man " "plan " "canal panama"]
	// [" " "x" "y" "z" " "]
	// [""]
}

func ExampleSplitN() {

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<h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language.
The pre-Go1.18 version, without generics, can be found
<a href="/doc/go1.17_spec.html">here</a>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
</p>

<p>

// and is always present. Following this are the entries, consisting of two
// fields (offset, length). This function must stop reading at the end
// boundary of the block containing the last newline.
//
// Note that the GNU manual says that numeric values should be encoded in octal
// format. However, the GNU tar utility itself outputs these values in decimal.
// As such, this library treats values as being encoded in decimal.