Chris Tomich post aiming to explain Go strings and their relationship to runes and bytes in a compact way.
He tries to point out two really important fundamentals of strings that need to be understood to mastering strings in Go.
- the components of a string
- the slice behaviour of a string
The first important rule of strings is that strings are made of up runes (not bytes). It’s important to understand that runes represent a single character and that different languages have different definitions of what constitutes a “character”. Also ranging over a string with a for loop returns runes.
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