bytes,strings: document Fields trimming of leading and trailing characters

Fixes #72841

Change-Id: I46875c61e3147c69da759bf4bf4f0539cbd4f437
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/658218
Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/strings/strings.go b/src/strings/strings.go
index 7eb2de635c..fb53b59f2c 100644
--- a/src/strings/strings.go
+++ b/src/strings/strings.go
@@ -378,7 +378,9 @@ var asciiSpace = [256]uint8{'\t': 1, '\n': 1, '\v': 1, '\f': 1, '\r': 1, ' ': 1}
 
 // Fields splits the string s around each instance of one or more consecutive white space
 // characters, as defined by [unicode.IsSpace], returning a slice of substrings of s or an
-// empty slice if s contains only white space.
+// empty slice if s contains only white space. Every element of the returned slice is
+// non-empty. Unlike [Split], leading and trailing runs runs of white space characters
+// are discarded.
 func Fields(s string) []string {
 	// First count the fields.
 	// This is an exact count if s is ASCII, otherwise it is an approximation.
@@ -430,7 +432,9 @@ func Fields(s string) []string {
 
 // FieldsFunc splits the string s at each run of Unicode code points c satisfying f(c)
 // and returns an array of slices of s. If all code points in s satisfy f(c) or the
-// string is empty, an empty slice is returned.
+// string is empty, an empty slice is returned. Every element of the returned slice is
+// non-empty. Unlike [SplitFunc], leading and trailing runs of code points satisfying f(c)
+// are discarded.
 //
 // FieldsFunc makes no guarantees about the order in which it calls f(c)
 // and assumes that f always returns the same value for a given c.