From d1fa3b368dcbc39eb87545bd5af22729c6add022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]"
 <211797793+exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:18:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Sync Iteration] go/hamming/1

---
 solutions/go/hamming/1/hamming.go | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 solutions/go/hamming/1/hamming.go

diff --git a/solutions/go/hamming/1/hamming.go b/solutions/go/hamming/1/hamming.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28bdff0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solutions/go/hamming/1/hamming.go
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package hamming
+
+import (
+    "fmt"
+    )
+
+func Distance(a, b string) (int, error) {
+	if len(a) != len(b) {
+        return 0, fmt.Errorf("Length of strands not equal.")
+    }
+    
+    diff:=0
+   for i:=0; i < len(a); i++ {
+       if a[i] != b[i] {
+           diff++
+       }
+   }
+    return diff, nil
+}