Answer: How do I convert from a char array [char; N] to a string slice &str?

answer re: How do I convert from a char array [char; N] to a string slice &str?

Jul 13 '16

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You can't without some allocation, which means you will end up with a String.

let s2: String = s.iter().collect();

The problem is that strings in Rust are not collections of chars, they are UTF-8, which is an encoding without a fixed size per character.

For example, the array…

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