Go-lang Lesson: Reading a file
This is simple example how to read a text file in the Go language. package main import ( "os" "fmt" "bufio" ) func main() { f, err :=os.Open( "/Users/ojitha/Documents/workspace/goex1/src/github.com/ojitha/examples/test.txt" ) if err != nil { fmt.Fprint(os.Stderr, err) } else { countLines(f) } f.Close() } func countLines(f *os.File) { input := bufio.NewScanner(f) for input.Scan(){ fmt.Printf(input.Text()+ "\n" ) } } test.txt is the text file. This program will display all the contents of the text file. If error of opening file display an error instead of file contents.