Real length of string

[adrianopol]

Hello, everyone.

How can I calculate the number of characters in a string, consisting
of ascii (1 byte) and cyrillic (2 bytes) characters? Function len()
tells me only the number of bytes. And a more general question which I
also have not found answer to: why a language, intended to be actively
used for web programming, has such uneasy way to deal with strings
containing multibyte symbols (compared to Java, for example)?

[roger peppe]

On 13 March 2012 15:16, adrianopol <adria...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> How can I calculate the number of characters in a string, consisting
> of ascii (1 byte) and cyrillic (2 bytes) characters? Function len()
> tells me only the number of bytes.

strings.RuneCountInString is probably what you want.

> And a more general question which I
> also have not found answer to: why a language, intended to be actively
> used for web programming, has such uneasy way to deal with strings
> containing multibyte symbols (compared to Java, for example)?

the concept of a "character" is a slippery one in the presence of
combining characters. one person's answer might not be another's.

i find Go works pretty well with multibyte symbols. it's relatively
rare to need random access to characters in my experience.

[Tarmigan]

Go works very well with utf-8:
http://play.golang.org/p/H5urxBSgPp

-Tarmigan

[adria...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:32:18 PM UTC+4, rog wrote:

strings.RuneCountInString is probably what you want.

Thank you, but the package is utf8: http://golang.org/pkg/utf8/#RuneCountInString.

[adrianopol]

Thank you very much!