How to deep copy a map and then clear the original?

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You are not copying the map, but the reference to the map. Your delete thus modifies the values in both your original map and the super map. To copy a map, you have to use a for loop like this:

for k,v := range originalMap {
  newMap[k] = v
}

Here’s an example from the now-retired SO documentation:

// Create the original map
originalMap := make(map[string]int)
originalMap["one"] = 1
originalMap["two"] = 2

// Create the target map
targetMap := make(map[string]int)

// Copy from the original map to the target map
for key, value := range originalMap {
  targetMap[key] = value
}

Excerpted from Maps – Copy a Map. The original author was JepZ. Attribution details can be found on the contributor page. The source is licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 and may be found in the Documentation archive. Reference topic ID: 732 and example ID: 9834.

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