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Accessing Characters

Indexing strings

Indexing a string gives you a byte, not a character:

s := "Hello"
fmt.Println(s[0])  // 72 (byte value of 'H')
fmt.Printf("%c\n", s[0])  // H (as character)

For ASCII strings, one byte equals one character. For Unicode strings, this breaks down. A single character might span multiple bytes. Use runes when you need to work with individual characters.