stringgoutf-8rune

Creating a substring in go creates a new kind of symbol

I am comparing strings and there is the following:

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Please note that the " in front of NEW are different.

Now when calling my function like this:

my_func(a[18:], b[18:])

The resulting strings are surprisingly:

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What do I have to do to cut this weird symbol away and why is it behaving like this?

Solution

  • Another option is the utf8string package:

    package main
import "golang.org/x/exp/utf8string"

func main() {
   s := utf8string.NewString(` 'Not Available') “NEW CREDIT" FROM customers;`)
   t := s.Slice(18, s.RuneCount())
   println(t == `“NEW CREDIT" FROM customers;`)
}

    https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/utf8string