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Reversing a string in Rust (for no reason) (video.infosec.exchange)
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Feeling slightly exhausted by the world? Let's reverse a string in Rust in a needlessly complicated way. I was expecting to make a tiny simple video and ended up going further into unsafe than I ev...

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thank you for watching the video and answering the question that I had from just reading the title.

Reversing a UTF-8 string is super hard in any language, rust doesn’t really make it that much harder.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    In fact it is easy in rust. Might not be the most performance (or maybe it is), but you should be able to do just "my_str".chars().rev().collect::()

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    That chars() call hides a lot of complexity, but also even that might not be correct depending on what exactly you mean by “reversing a string”.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Based on the responses (i haven't watch the video), hu just revered according to Unicode codepoints (chars). Therefore this should do the same.

    Of course chars() hides the complexity, that's what makes it easy.

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