Read text file into string array (and write)
The ability to read (and write) a text file into and out of a string array is I believe a fairly common requirement. It is also quite useful when starting with a language removing the need initially to access a database. Does one exist in Golang?
e.g.
func ReadLines(sFileName string, iMinLines int) ([]string, bool) {
and
func WriteLines(saBuff[]string, sFilename string) (bool) {
I would prefer to use an existing one rather than duplicate.
Solution 1:
As of Go1.1 release, there is a bufio.Scanner API that can easily read lines from a file. Consider the following example from above, rewritten with Scanner:
package main
import (
"bufio"
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
)
// readLines reads a whole file into memory
// and returns a slice of its lines.
func readLines(path string) ([]string, error) {
file, err := os.Open(path)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer file.Close()
var lines []string
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
for scanner.Scan() {
lines = append(lines, scanner.Text())
}
return lines, scanner.Err()
}
// writeLines writes the lines to the given file.
func writeLines(lines []string, path string) error {
file, err := os.Create(path)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer file.Close()
w := bufio.NewWriter(file)
for _, line := range lines {
fmt.Fprintln(w, line)
}
return w.Flush()
}
func main() {
lines, err := readLines("foo.in.txt")
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("readLines: %s", err)
}
for i, line := range lines {
fmt.Println(i, line)
}
if err := writeLines(lines, "foo.out.txt"); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("writeLines: %s", err)
}
}
Solution 2:
Note: ioutil is deprecated as of Go 1.16.
If the file isn't too large, this can be done with the ioutil.ReadFile
and strings.Split
functions like so:
content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
if err != nil {
//Do something
}
lines := strings.Split(string(content), "\n")
You can read the documentation on ioutil and strings packages.