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 1const print = @import("std").debug.print;
 2const mem = @import("std").mem; // will be used to compare bytes
 3
 4pub fn main() void {
 5    const bytes = "hello";
 6    print("{}\n", .{@TypeOf(bytes)}); // *const [5:0]u8
 7    print("{d}\n", .{bytes.len}); // 5
 8    print("{c}\n", .{bytes[1]}); // 'e'
 9    print("{d}\n", .{bytes[5]}); // 0
10    print("{}\n", .{'e' == '\x65'}); // true
11    print("{d}\n", .{'\u{1f4a9}'}); // 128169
12    print("{d}\n", .{'💯'}); // 128175
13    print("{u}\n", .{'âš¡'});
14    print("{}\n", .{mem.eql(u8, "hello", "h\x65llo")}); // true
15    print("{}\n", .{mem.eql(u8, "💯", "\xf0\x9f\x92\xaf")}); // also true
16    const invalid_utf8 = "\xff\xfe"; // non-UTF-8 strings are possible with \xNN notation.
17    print("0x{x}\n", .{invalid_utf8[1]}); // indexing them returns individual bytes...
18    print("0x{x}\n", .{"💯"[1]}); // ...as does indexing part-way through non-ASCII characters
19}
20
21// exe=succeed