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=Reading and Writing an Entire File in/from Memory=
=Reading and Writing an Entire File in/from Memory=
To read the content of an entire file into a byte slice:
<syntaxhighlight lang='go'>
bs, err := os.ReadFile("/Users/ovidiu/tmp/test.txt")
</syntaxhighlight>
To write in-memory data into a file:
<syntaxhighlight lang='go'>
s := "This\nis multi-line\nfile\ncontent\n"
err := os.WriteFile("/Users/ovidiu/tmp/test2.txt", []byte(s), 0777)
</syntaxhighlight>
<code>os.ReadFile</code> and <code>os.WriteFile</code> close the file after use.


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Revision as of 18:25, 25 August 2023

External

Internal

Overview

Reading and Writing an Entire File in/from Memory

To read the content of an entire file into a byte slice:

bs, err := os.ReadFile("/Users/ovidiu/tmp/test.txt")

To write in-memory data into a file:

s := "This\nis multi-line\nfile\ncontent\n"
err := os.WriteFile("/Users/ovidiu/tmp/test2.txt", []byte(s), 0777)

os.ReadFile and os.WriteFile close the file after use.

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External

Internal

Functions

os.Open()

Works with files and directories.

os.Create()

os.File

os.File Methods

FileInfo

FileInfo Methods

  • Size()

os.Args

os.Args is a string slice that holds the command-line arguments, starting with the program name. For more details on how to use see:

Command Line Parsing