Merge pull request #21 from sanjeevtripurari/master

Example Reading file in GO

filehandling/readfile.go

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+// program to read file
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	filename := os.Args[1]
+
+	readlFile, err := os.Open(filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("error openning file: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	fileInfo, _ := os.Stat(filename)
+	fileName, fileSize := fileInfo.Name(), fileInfo.Size()
+	fmt.Printf("\nReading..\n\tFileName : %v\n\tSize     : %v\n\n", fileName, fileSize)
+
+	fileScanner := bufio.NewScanner(readlFile)
+	fileScanner.Split(bufio.ScanLines)
+
+	for fileScanner.Scan() {
+		fmt.Println(fileScanner.Text())
+	}
+	readlFile.Close()
+}