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Go program to reading plain text files

The bufio package Scanner generally used for reading the text by lines or words from a file. The following source code snippet shows reading text line-by-line from the plain text file as below.

Example

package main
 
import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
)
 
func main() {
	file, err := os.Open("test.txt")
 
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed opening file: %s", err)
	}
 
	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
	scanner.Split(bufio.ScanLines)
	var txtlines []string
 
	for scanner.Scan() {
		txtlines = append(txtlines, scanner.Text())
	}
 
	file.Close()
 
	for _, eachline := range txtlines {
		fmt.Println(eachline)
	}
}

Output

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Nunc a mi dapibus, faucibus mauris eu, fermentum ligula.
Donec in mauris ut justo eleifend dapibus.
Donec eu erat sit amet velit auctor tempus id eget mauris.
The os.Open() function is used to open a specific text file in read-only mode and this returns a pointer of type os.File. The method os.File.Close() is called on the os.File object to close the file and there is a loop to iterates through and prints each of the slice values.

The program after execution shows the below output line-by-line as they read it from the file.
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