Accessing Slice Elements

Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's GO journey — lesson 78 of 109.

Accessing slice elements works just like arrays, using square brackets with an index position (starting from 0).

Create a slice of fruits:

fruits := []string{"Apple", "Banana", "Cherry"}
fmt.Println(fruits[0])  // First element
fmt.Println(fruits[1])  // Second element
fmt.Println(fruits[2])  // Third element

This displays:

Apple
Banana
Cherry

You can also modify elements by assigning new values:

fruits[1] = "Blueberry"
fmt.Println(fruits)

Result:

[Apple Blueberry Cherry]

Challenge

Beginner

In this challenge, you'll practice accessing elements from a slice in Go.

We've created a slice of fruits for you. Your task is to access specific elements from this slice and print them.

Try it yourself

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	// A slice of fruits
	fruits := []string{"apple", "banana", "cherry", "date", "elderberry"}
	
	// TODO: Access the first fruit (index 0) and store it in a variable called firstFruit
	
	// TODO: Access the third fruit (index 2) and store it in a variable called thirdFruit
	
	// Print the results
	fmt.Println("The first fruit is:", firstFruit)
	fmt.Println("The third fruit is:", thirdFruit)
}