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Redundant blank argument in range

Reports optional blank variables in range loops.

When you use the range loop to iterate over a slice, two values are returned for each iteration. The first is the index number, and the second is a copy of the element at that index. If you do not need the second value, you can skip this element instead of using a blank identifier.

Example:

for a, _ = range v {} // `for a, _ =` is the same as `for a =`

To remove the blank identifier, you can use the Delete blank argument quick-fix. After the quick-fix is applied, the code will look as follows:

for a = range v {}

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoRedundantBlankArgInRange
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Declaration redundancy

Inspection ID: GoRedundantBlankArgInRange

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoRedundantBlankArgInRange

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025