I think Jan answered the question asked. But, do you have some specific concern that prompted the question? Is it about security, or memory usage, or just curiosity?
On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 10:55:27 AM UTC-4, Jay Sharma wrote: > > Hi All, > > I went through documentation and many post. Every where it is specified > *strings > are immutable*. > > I have some string : > > x := "teststring" > > > I want to *wipe out/overwrite* the content of this string x from > disk/memory. > > As per me the simplest way to do this: > > x = "" > > > or If I want to overwrite it with some new content, I can do this: [*Here > length of new string is equal to length of old string*] > > x = "new1string" > > > As I am overwriting the content with new content, Is it *inplace > replacement* [same memory is being updated] or a new copy will be created > with new content and old content will be there in the memory ? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
