Sorting with Go's sort package

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Go’s sort package implements sorting for builtins and user-defined types.

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package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sort"
)

func main() {

    // Sort methods are specific to the builtin type; here’s an example for strings.
    // Note that sorting is in-place, so it changes the given slice and doesn’t return a new one.
    strs := []string{"c", "a", "b"}
    sort.Strings(strs)
    fmt.Println("Strings:", strs)

    // Sorting ints.
    ints := []int{7, 2, 4}
    sort.Ints(ints)
    fmt.Println("Ints:   ", ints)

    // We can also use sort to check if a slice is already in sorted order.
    s := sort.IntsAreSorted(ints)
    fmt.Println("Sorted: ", s)
}