The Slice Type
Concept A partial reference of a contiguous sequence of elements in a collection. contiguous a data type that does not have ownership Usage String Slices let s = String::from("hello world"); let hello = &s[0..5]; let world = &s[6..11]; Like others languages, we can simpify the syntax if we want to start at the first index(zero) or include the last byte of String #![allow(unused)] fn main() { let s = String::from("hello"); let slice = &s[0..2]; let slice = &s[..2]; } #![allow(unused)] fn main() { let s = String::from("hello"); let len = s.len(); let slice = &s[3..len]; let slice = &s[3..]; } #![allow(unused)] fn main() { let s = String::from("hello"); let len = s.len(); let slice = &s[0..len]; let slice = &s[..]; } Attention String slice range indices must occur at valid UTF-8 character boundaries. String literals are slices Using string slices as parameters usually make our API more general and useful without losing any functionality.