osPathSeparator是符文类型，但想用作字符串

Question

I am currently using strings.TrimLeft(s string, cutset string) on a path and want to pass os.PathSeparator as the second argument.

os.PathSeparator is defined in the os package as follows:

const (
    PathSeparator     = '\\' // OS-specific path separator
    PathListSeparator = ';'  // OS-specific path list separator
)

When I do pass it, I get the following error:

cannot use os.PathSeparator (type rune) as type string in argument to strings.TrimLeft

Any idea why os.PathSeparator isn't a string?

Answer 1

Because the separator actually is only a single character. If you want to use it as a string, why not simply cast it to string?

strings.TrimLeft("/absolute/path", string(os.PathSeparator))

will return "absolute/path"