If I need to find the length of a string, I use built-in function len
.
At first I thought it returns the number of character, but actually it returns length of byte of the string.
s := `something`
println(len(s)) // return 9
this will print 9
but it will be different if I use utf8 chars
s2 := "hétérogénéité"
println(len(s2)) // return 18
this one return 18, because é is 2 bytes long and len
is counting byte not char
so, if we want count chars in a string, we can use utf8.RuneCountInString
s2 := "hétérogénéité"
println(utf8.RuneCountInString(s2)) // return 13
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