reflect.Append() Function in Golang with Examples

Last Updated : 28 Apr, 2020

Go language provides inbuilt support implementation of run-time reflection and allowing a program to manipulate objects with arbitrary types with the help of reflect package. The reflect.Append() Function in Golang is used to append appends the values x to a slice s. To access this function, one needs to imports the reflect package in the program.

Syntax:
func Append(s Value, x ...Value) Value
Parameters: This function takes the following parameters:

s: This parameter is the slice where values are to be append.

x: These parameter are values to be append.

Return Value: This function returns the resulting slice.

Below examples illustrate the use of above method in Golang: Example 1:

// Golang program to illustrate
// reflect.Append() Function

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "reflect"
)

// Main function
func main() {

    a := []int{2, 5}
    
    var b reflect.Value = reflect.ValueOf(&a)

    b = b.Elem()
    
    fmt.Println("Slice :", a)
    
    // use of Append method

    b = reflect.Append(b, reflect.ValueOf(80))
    fmt.Println("Slice after appending data:", b)

}

Output:

Slice : [2 5]
Slice after appending data: [2 5 80]

Example 2:

// Golang program to illustrate
// reflect.Append() Function

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "reflect"
)

// Main function
func main() {

    var str []string
     var v reflect.Value = reflect.ValueOf(&str)

     v = v.Elem()

     // using the function
     v = reflect.Append(v, reflect.ValueOf("a"))
     v = reflect.Append(v, reflect.ValueOf("b"))
     v = reflect.Append(v, reflect.ValueOf("c"), reflect.ValueOf("j, k, l"))

     fmt.Println("Our value is a type of :", v.Kind())

     vSlice := v.Slice(0, v.Len())
     vSliceElems := vSlice.Interface()

     fmt.Println("With the elements of : ", vSliceElems)

}

Output:

Our value is a type of : slice
With the elements of :  [a b c j, k, l]

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