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The Go blog: strings, bytes, runes, and characters in Go: https://blog.golang.org/strings | |||
A string in Go is a read-only slice of bytes. A string can hold arbitrary bytes, it is not required to hold unicode/UTF-8/other format. | |||
Indexing a string does not access characters - it accesses the individual bytes. So, when you store a character value in a string, you are storing the byte representation at that point in time. | |||
Revision as of 05:01, 12 December 2018
Related: Rosalind/Problem 1A
The Go blog: strings, bytes, runes, and characters in Go: https://blog.golang.org/strings
A string in Go is a read-only slice of bytes. A string can hold arbitrary bytes, it is not required to hold unicode/UTF-8/other format.
Indexing a string does not access characters - it accesses the individual bytes. So, when you store a character value in a string, you are storing the byte representation at that point in time.
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