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 <so.qu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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" "a" "r"]
>
>
> - Iterate through a string by "character" strings instead of runes,
> for example:
>
> str := "foo"
> for _,char := range "bar" {
> str += char // is a cast string(char) required?
> }
> fmt.Println(str) // print "foobar"
>
>
>
> Also what is the relationship between a rune and it's byte representation?
>
> Any additional advice for working with characters of strings would be
> appreciated as well.
>
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