johnwesonga · August 22, 2013 00:29 · Aug 22, 2013
diff --git a/unique elements in a slice b/unique elements in a slice
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package main
+
+import "fmt"
+
+func uniqueNonEmptyElementsOf(s []string) []string {
+  unique := make(map[string]bool, len(s))
+	us := make([]string, len(unique))
+	for _, elem := range s {
+		if len(elem) != 0 {
+			if !unique[elem] {
+				us = append(us, elem)
+				unique[elem] = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return us
+
+}
+
+func main() {
+	names := []string{"John", "Peter", "Jim", "John", "Ken", "Pete", "Jimmy"}
+	fmt.Println(uniqueNonEmptyElementsOf(names))
+}