Code RoomWord slice outlives normalized
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Word slice outlives normalized

Code reviewCode quality & reviewMid–Senior~20 min

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 String
3 let word = normalized.split_whitespace().next().unwrap_or("");
4 word // return slice into normalized
5}
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