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Learn Go · Part 5 of 11

Strings, Runes and Bytes

What strings actually look like under the hood, what runes and bytes are, and building strings without wasting time.

Video 26:36–31:06 · 7 topics · 13 exercises

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What's in it

  • Indexing a string
  • How UTF-8 works
  • Runes
  • Bytes and []byte
  • Strings can't be changed
  • Building strings
  • The strings package