I’m trying to append a slice of integers to a slice that is made up of integer slices. When I print the slice, it shows up as expected. However, when I append the slice to a slice of slices, the content changes.
package main
import "fmt"
var myGraph [8][8]bool //the graph
var visited [8]bool //an array that marks if visited
var path []int //a slice to store a possible path
var paths [][]int
func dfs(src int, dest int) {
//add current node to path
path = append(path, src)
//mark current node as visited
visited[src] = true
//if the current node is the destination
//print the path and return
if src == dest {
fmt.Println(path)
paths = append(paths, path) //I'm trying to push the path slice into the paths slice
return
}
for i := 1; i <= 7; i++ { //loop through all nodes
//if ith node is a neighbour of the current node and it is not visited
if myGraph[src][i] && visited[i] == false {
// call dfs on the current node
dfs(i, dest)
//mark the current node as unvisited
//so that we can other paths to the final destination
visited[i] = false
//re-slice the slice - get rid of the current node
path = path[:len(path)-1]
}
}
}
func main() {
path = make([]int, 0, 8)
paths = make([][]int, 0, 10)
//creating the graph
myGraph[1] = [...]bool{false, false, true, true, false, false, true, false}
myGraph[2] = [...]bool{false, true, false, true, false, true, false, false}
myGraph[3] = [...]bool{false, true, true, false, true, false, true, false}
myGraph[4] = [...]bool{false, false, false, true, false, false, true, false}
myGraph[5] = [...]bool{false, false, true, false, false, false, true, false}
myGraph[6] = [...]bool{false, true, false, true, true, false, false, true}
myGraph[7] = [...]bool{false, false, false, false, false, false, true, false}
//call dfs by feeding in the source and the destination
dfs(1, 7)
fmt.Println(paths)
}
Output:
[1 2 5 6 7]
[1 3 2 5 6 7]
[1 3 4 6 7]
[1 3 6 7]
[1 6 7]
[[1 6 7 3 2 5] [1 6 7 3 2] [1 6 7 3 2] [1 6 7 3 2 5] [1 6 7 3 2] [1 6 7 3] [1 6 7]]
As you can see, the slice of slices is printed at the end by the main function. However, its contents are different to the individual slices that are printed by dfs().