Module show_notes::e014

Stringing things along

• Date: April 24, 2016
• Subject: Strings &strs and Vecs and slices (and Unicode) – oh, my!
• Audio

Notes

This episode, I take a deep dive on strings in Rust, looking at the differences between String and &str, discussing Unicode a bit, and then expanding the discussion to think about how these types relate to the types they’re built on (like Vec).

Corrigenda

Listener Nev pointed out to me that I got it wrong when describing how &str data is stored. It is not stack-allocated, but rather goes in the data segment. I should have said statically-allocated, not stack-allocated. Thanks to Nev for the correction!

Links

• Strings:
  • The Rust Book
  • Rust by Example
  • str docs:
    • module
    • primitive type
  • String
    • module
    • type definition
• Dereferencing
  • coercions
  • std::ops::Deref

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Modules

• demo_deref
  Demonstrate dereferencing. (You’ll want to read this example carefully.)

Functions

• demonstrate_unicode
  Print a 🚀, just because we can.
• get_a_slice
  Get a string slice. Note the required lifetime specifier on the type!
• get_a_string
  Get a String instance. Note there’s no lifetime.
• get_a_string_with_capacity
  Get a String with a specified capacity.
• get_back_some_unicode
• show_from_behavior
  It’s easy enough to get a String from a str.