Read text file into string array (and write)
Cannot update first answer.
Anyway, after Go1 release, there are some breaking changes, so I updated as shown below:
package main
import (
"os"
"bufio"
"bytes"
"io"
"fmt"
"strings"
)
// Read a whole file into the memory and store it as array of lines
func readLines(path string) (lines []string, err error) {
var (
file *os.File
part []byte
prefix bool
)
if file, err = os.Open(path); err != nil {
return
}
defer file.Close()
reader := bufio.NewReader(file)
buffer := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0))
for {
if part, prefix, err = reader.ReadLine(); err != nil {
break
}
buffer.Write(part)
if !prefix {
lines = append(lines, buffer.String())
buffer.Reset()
}
}
if err == io.EOF {
err = nil
}
return
}
func writeLines(lines []string, path string) (err error) {
var (
file *os.File
)
if file, err = os.Create(path); err != nil {
return
}
defer file.Close()
//writer := bufio.NewWriter(file)
for _,item := range lines {
//fmt.Println(item)
_, err := file.WriteString(strings.TrimSpace(item) + "\n");
//file.Write([]byte(item));
if err != nil {
//fmt.Println("debug")
fmt.Println(err)
break
}
}
/*content := strings.Join(lines, "\n")
_, err = writer.WriteString(content)*/
return
}
func main() {
lines, err := readLines("foo.txt")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error: %s\n", err)
return
}
for _, line := range lines {
fmt.Println(line)
}
//array := []string{"7.0", "8.5", "9.1"}
err = writeLines(lines, "foo2.txt")
fmt.Println(err)
}
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)
}
}
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.