Extracting substrings in Go

Question

I\'m trying to read an entire line from the console (including whitespace), then process it. Using bufio.ReadString, the newline character is read together with the input, s

Answer 1

WARNING: operating on strings alone will only work with ASCII and will count wrong when input is a non-ASCII UTF-8 encoded character, and will probably even corrupt characters since it cuts multibyte chars mid-sequence.

Here's a UTF-8-aware version:

func substr(input string, start int, length int) string {
    asRunes := []rune(input)

    if start >= len(asRunes) {
        return ""
    }

    if start+length > len(asRunes) {
        length = len(asRunes) - start
    }

    return string(asRunes[start : start+length])
}