Handling stdin in Go

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Handling stdin with fmt Functions

fmt.Scan()

https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/#Scan

Read text from stdin. It stores successive space-separated values into successive arguments. Newlines count as space. It returns the number of items successfully scanned. If that is less than the number of arguments, err will report why.

var s string
cnt, err := fmt.Scan(&s)
fmt.Printf("input line: %s, cnt: %d, error: %s\n", s, cnt, err)

fmt.Scanln()

https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/#Scanln

Scanln is similar to Scan, but stops scanning at a newline or EOF. It still uses space as separator, and stores space-separated fragments into successive arguments.

var line string
fmt.Scanln(&line)

fmt.Scanf()

https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/#Scanf
var f float
cnt, err := fmt.Scanf("%f", &f)