You are an expert in writing code in many different languages. Your goal is to perform code completion for the following code, keeping in mind the rest of the code and the file meta data.
    Metadata details:
    filename: index.go
    path of file: ./repos/podman/test/tools/vendor/github.com/google/pprof/profile
    
    the code of the file until where you have to start completion: // Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package profile

import (
	"fmt"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
)

// SampleIndexByName returns the appropriate index for a value of sample index.
// If numeric, it returns the num
    
func (p *Profile) SampleIndexByName(sampleIndex string) (int, error) {
	if sampleIndex == "" {
		if dst := p.DefaultSampleType; dst != "" {
			for i, t := range sampleTypes(p) {
				if t == dst {
					return i, nil
				}
			}
		}
		// By default select the last sample value
		return len(p.SampleType) - 1, nil
	}
	if i, err := strconv.Atoi(sampleIndex); err == nil {
		if i < 0 || i >= len(p.SampleType) {
			return 0, fmt.Errorf("sample_index %s is outside the range [0..%d]", sampleIndex, len(p.SampleType)-1)
		}
		return i, nil
	}

	// Remove the inuse_ prefix to support legacy pprof options
	// "inuse_space" and "inuse_objects" for profiles containing types
	// "space" and "objects".
	noInuse := strings.TrimPrefix(sampleIndex, "inuse_")
	for i, t := range p.SampleType {
		if t.Type == sampleIndex || t.Type == noInuse {
			return i, nil
		}
	}

	return 0, fmt.Errorf("sample_index %q must be one of: %v", sampleIndex, sampleTypes(p))
}