Need help in formatting

I am starting to learn go and got into a problem(challenge). I have to format text.

Input will be like: api=<http://example.com/first/api:latest|example.com/first/api:latest>;

And I want output like this:

api=example.com/first/api:latest

i.e. strip gt & lt signs, http OR text before | and > sign.

Context: Slack bot. It interprets text with dot as link and sends it in <..|..> format. If you are not clear, please feel free to comment.

I was seeing net/url but I think that would be not of big help.

Any help, comment, resource I should see will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

https://play.golang.org/p/snse0sObOf


match text between <...>

split by |

take second part (right of |)

trim length by one (getting rid of >)

replace match with the cleaned value

Should be enough as a base for whatever you're doing from here out.

Bit generalization would be to take nearest < and > from | ... case: https://play.golang.org/p/3cCTpDRWij . 

Anyway, thank you very much.

Easy enough fix, one character: https://play.golang.org/p/ydHwwFxOI_ (regex changes from [^>] to [^<>]). There's probably edge cases abound...

Yep. Thanks. btw, good that it also works if there is | before or after the link stuff :)