Re: [go-nuts] Working with characters in strings

Sorry, I did not mean to say they are restricted to UTF8. I was answering the question "what is the relation between a rune and its byte representation", by saying that the []byte cast of a string (assuming the string only holds legitimate runes) is the UTF8 of the runes making it up. The

Re: [go-nuts] Working with characters in strings

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 06:06:23PM +, 'Thomas Bushnell, BSG' via golang-nuts wrote: > Strings are specified to be UTF8, so if you cast a string to []byte you > will see its UTF8 representation. They are not. A Go string may contain arbitrary bytes. Features like for..range or conversions to

Re: [go-nuts] Working with characters in strings

I don't know what you mean by "characters", since you're distinguishing them from runes. Do you mean bytes? Strings are specified to be UTF8, so if you cast a string to []byte you will see its UTF8 representation. Thomas On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:42 AM wrote: > > I

[go-nuts] Working with "characters" in strings

I know that strings are an immutable sequence of bytes, so what would be the most idiomatic way to handle the following operations. - Convert a string to []string (slice) or [n]string (array). Eg. "foobar" to ["f" "o" "o" "b" "a" "r"] - Iterate through a string and evaluate the

[go-nuts] Working with characters in strings

I understand that strings are immutable sequences of bytes and wanted to know how to idiomatically work with the "characters" within a string. For example how should I approach the following operations - Convert a string to a []string (slice or array). eg. "foobar" to ["f" "o" "o" "b"