Top "Rune" questions

What is a rune?

What is a rune in Go? I've been googling but Golang only says in one line: rune is an alias …

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Golang converting from rune to string

I have the following code, it is supposed to cast a rune into a string and print it. However, I …

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How can I iterate over a string by runes in Go?

I wanted to this: for i := 0; i < len(str); i++ { dosomethingwithrune(str[i]) // takes a rune } But it turns …

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Convert rune to int?

In the following code, I iterate over a string rune by rune, but I'll actually need an int to perform …

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Cast/convert int to rune in Go

Assuming I have an int64 variable (or other integer size) representing a valid unicode code-point, and I want to convert …

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Slice unicode/ascii strings in golang?

I need to slice a string in Go. Possible values can contain Latin chars and/or Arabic/Chinese chars. In …

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cannot use type []rune as type rune in append

package main var lettersLower = []rune("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") var lettersUpper = []rune("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ") func main() { x := append(lettersLower, lettersUpper) } Why does this not …

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Go sort a slice of runes?

I'm having trouble sorting strings by character (to check whether two strings are anagrams, I want to sort both of …

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How to get a substring from a string of runes in golang?

I found this, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/YyKlLwuWt3w but as far as I can tell, the …

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What are Go's rules for comparing bytes with runes?

I've discovered the following peculiarity: b := "a"[0] r := 'a' fmt.Println(b == r) // Does not compile, cannot compare byte and …

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