Strings and Runes

Go strings store text, and runes represent individual Unicode characters.

strings_runes.go

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	var word = 
	firstRune := []rune(word)[0]
	message := word + " types"

	fmt.Println("word=", word)
	fmt.Println("first=", string(firstRune))
	fmt.Println("message=", message)
}

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	var word = 
	firstRune := []rune(word)[0]
	message := word + " types"

	fmt.Println("word=", word)
	fmt.Println("first=", string(firstRune))
	fmt.Println("message=", message)
}

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	var word = 
	firstRune := []rune(word)[0]
	message := word + " types"

	fmt.Println("word=", word)
	fmt.Println("first=", string(firstRune))
	fmt.Println("message=", message)
}

rune A `rune` is an alias for `int32` and commonly represents one Unicode character.