On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:23 PM Roland Müller <rol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Am Mo., 14. Juni 2021 um 03:24 Uhr schrieb Amit Saha <amitsaha...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi - My main motivation to understand this is i always had to google >> this - how to convert a string to a byte slice. >> >> Is []byte a type that has been defined in the compiler? >> >> Or, is that an internal level detail that an earlier stage (parsing) >> takes care of when the compiler sees that statement? >> >> Thanks, >> Amit >> > > a []byte is a sequence of octets and strings in Go consistent of a bytes. > These bytes represent an sequence of unicode characters according to UTF-8. > One such character consists of either a single or two bytes. ASCII -only > strings than have as many bytes as UTF characters. > > In the example I made two loop functions loopStringByBytes(s) and > loopStringByChars(s) and checked them against a ASCII string and a cyrillic > string. You can see that for second string every character occupies 2 bytes. > > https://play.golang.org/p/DDSpiFuR8Lp
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