Beginning Go Programming: Build Reliable and Efficient Applications with Go

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R. Hussain, M. ZulfiqarBeginning Go Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8858-0_4

4. Working with Text

Rumeel Hussain¹   and Maryam Zulfiqar²

(1)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

(2)

Lahore, Pakistan

 

Real-world applications work with a lot of textual data. Unlike languages like C++ and Java, in Go, strings behave as read-only slices of bytes. Furthermore, Unicode text using UTF-8 encoding is used to represent bytes of strings. Several Go libraries are available for the purpose of string manipulation, for example, packages like strings, unicode, and regexp. Note that, in Go, strings are immutable or read-only, meaning that their value cannot be changed after ...