// returning nil instead of empty slice if all spaces.
		return nil
	}
	return s[start:stop]
}

// Runes interprets s as a sequence of UTF-8-encoded code points.
// It returns a slice of runes (Unicode code points) equivalent to s.
func Runes(s []byte) []rune {
	t := make([]rune, utf8.RuneCount(s))
	i := 0
	for len(s) > 0 {
		r, l := utf8.DecodeRune(s)
		t[i] = r
		i++
		s = s[l:]
	}

The [RuneLen] function returns the number of 16-bit words in
the UTF-16 encoding of the rune. It returns -1 if the rune

	r.i--
	return nil
}

// ReadRune implements the [io.RuneReader] interface.
func (r *Reader) ReadRune() (ch rune, size int, err error) {
	if r.i >= int64(len(r.s)) {
		r.prevRune = -1
		return 0, 0, io.EOF
	}
	r.prevRune = int(r.i)
	if c := r.s[r.i]; c < utf8.RuneSelf {
		r.i++
		return rune(c), 1, nil
	}
	ch, size = utf8.DecodeRune(r.s[r.i:])
	r.i += int64(size)
	return
}

</li>

<li>
Converting a slice of runes to a string type yields
a string that is the concatenation of the individual rune values
converted to strings.

<pre>
string([]rune{0x767d, 0x9d6c, 0x7fd4})   // "\u767d\u9d6c\u7fd4" == "白鵬翔"
string([]rune{})                         // ""
string([]rune(nil))                      // ""

type runes []rune

	//
	//	R1
	//	offset
	//	$offset
	// Every piece is optional, so we scan left to right and what
	// we discover tells us where we are.

	// Prefix: $.
	var prefix rune
	switch tok := p.peek(); tok {
	case '$', '*':
		prefix = rune(tok)
		p.next()
	}

	// Symbol: sym±offset(SB)
	tok := p.next()
	name := tok.String()
	if tok.ScanToken == scanner.Ident && !p.atStartOfRegister(name) {

// used, by convention, to distinguish byte values from 8-bit unsigned
// integer values.
type byte = uint8

// rune is an alias for int32 and is equivalent to int32 in all ways. It is
// used, by convention, to distinguish character values from integer values.
type rune = int32

// any is an alias for interface{} and is equivalent to interface{} in all ways.
type any = interface{}

Antarctica/Troll Antarctica/Vostok Arctic/Longyearbyen Asia/Aden Asia/Almaty Asia/Amman Asia/Anadyr Asia/Aqtau Asia/Aqtobe Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad Asia/Atyrau Asia/Baghdad Asia/Bahrain Asia/Baku Asia/Bangkok Asia/Barnaul Asia/Beirut Asia/Bishkek Asia/Brunei Asia/Calcutta Asia/Chita Asia/Choibalsan Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking Asia/Colombo Asia/Dacca Asia/Damascus Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dili Asia/Dubai Asia/Dushanbe Asia/Famagusta Asia/Gaza Asia/Harbin Asia/Hebron Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh Asia/Hong_Kong Asia/Hovd Asia/Irkutsk...

// UTF-8-encoded rune as a token. The sequence of runes returned is
// equivalent to that from a range loop over the input as a string, which
// means that erroneous UTF-8 encodings translate to U+FFFD = "\xef\xbf\xbd".
// Because of the Scan interface, this makes it impossible for the client to
// distinguish correctly encoded replacement runes from encoding errors.

			t.Errorf("%s(%q) = %q; want %q", funcName, tc.in, actual, tc.out)
		}
	}
}

func tenRunes(r rune) string {
	runes := make([]rune, 10)
	for i := range runes {
		runes[i] = r
	}
	return string(runes)
}

// User-defined self-inverse mapping function
func rot13(r rune) rune {
	const step = 13
	if r >= 'a' && r <= 'z' {
		return ((r - 'a' + step) % 26) + 'a'
	}

	fmt.Println(bytes.LastIndexFunc([]byte("go gopher!"), unicode.IsNumber))
	// Output:
	// 8
	// 9
	// -1
}

func ExampleMap() {
	rot13 := func(r rune) rune {
		switch {
		case r >= 'A' && r <= 'Z':
			return 'A' + (r-'A'+13)%26
		case r >= 'a' && r <= 'z':
			return 'a' + (r-'a'+13)%26
		}
		return r
	}