What is type string in Golang?

string in Golang is a set of all strings that contain 8-bit bytes. By default, strings in Golang are UTF-8 encoded.

Variable of type string is enclosed between double-quotes. The type string variable’s value is immutable.

The value assigned to the type string variable can be empty but cannot be nil.

Code

Example 1

The code below shows how to declare a variable of type string.

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
   var sentence string 
   sentence = "Hello From Educative"
   fmt.Printf("Sentence : %s\n", sentence);
   fmt.Printf("Data type of sentence is %T\n", sentence);
}

Explanation

The keyword var is written followed by the variable name, and then we state the variable datatype which is string.

Example 2

The code below shows another way to declare a string variable.

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
   var sentence = "Hello From Educative"
   fmt.Printf("Sentence : %s\n", sentence);
   fmt.Printf("Data type of sentence is %T\n", sentence);
}

Explanation

We have not explicitly mentioned that the variable is of type string as we have directly initialized it with a value enclosed between double-quotes. sentence still gets stored as a variable of type string.

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