Return a slice of the input in Rust

Rust interview exercise on Ownership & Borrowing, difficulty 1 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Write first_word(s) that returns the first whitespace-separated word, or "" when there is none. Return a &str that borrows from s: no String, no allocation.

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