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		steveklabnik on Feb 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning Rust via Advent of Code &str is not the same as &[char]. &str has the same memory representation as &[u8]. char is four bytes, not one.

gridspy on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

Thanks Steve.

steveklabnik on Feb 5, 2019 | [–]

No problem! It's an easy mistake to make.

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