Code reviewMediumcr-g389

Subject LifetimesLevel Mid–Senior~20 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Rust function meant to return the first word of a freshly normalized string.

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1fn first_word(input: &str) -> &str {2    let normalized = input.trim().to_lowercase(); // owned String3    let word = normalized.split_whitespace().next().unwrap_or("");4    word   // return slice into normalized5}

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