Creating strings

In this recipe, we will look at how to create strings in a program.

How to do it...

• Use a string literal. There are two types of string literals in Go:
  • Use interpreted string literals, between the double quotations:

    x := "Hello world"

  • With interpreted string literals, you must escape certain characters:

    x:="This is how you can include a \" in your string literal"
    y:="You can also use a newline \n, tab \t"

  • You can include Unicode codepoints or hexadecimal bytes, escaped with '\':

    w:="\u65e5本\U00008a9e"
    x:="\xff"

You cannot have newlines or an unescaped double-quote in an interpreted string:

• Use raw string literals, using backticks. A raw string literal can include any characters (including newlines) except a backtick. There is no way to escape backticks in a raw literal.

  x:=`This is a
  multiline raw string literal.
  Backslash will print as backslash \`

If you need to include...