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Hands-On Go Programming

By : Tarik Guney
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Hands-On Go Programming

By: Tarik Guney

Overview of this book

<p>With its C-like speed, simplicity, and power for a growing number of system-level programming domains, Go has become increasingly popular among programmers. Hands-On Go Programming teaches you the Go programming by solving commonly faced problems with the help of recipes. You will start by installing Go binaries and get familiar with the tools used for developing an application. Once you have understood these tasks, you will be able to manipulate strings and use them in built-in function constructs to create a complex value from two floating-point values. You will discover how to perform an arithmetic operation date and time, along with parsing them from string values. In addition to this, you will cover concurrency in Go, performing various web programming tasks, implementing system programming, reading and writing files, and honing many fundamental Go programming skills such as proper error handling and logging, among others. Whether you are an expert programmer or newbie, this book helps you understand how various answers are programmed in the Go language.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributor
Preface
Index

Creating temporary files


In this section, we're going to see how to create a temporary file. Let's also have a variable that contains a string called helloWorld := "Hello, World". We're going to use ioutil package and it provides the TempFile() method. The first parameter is directory; if you don't pass anything to it, it will use its default temporary directory, which we will be using in this case, and the second one is to give a prefix to your temporary file, which will be hello_world_temp. It returns two things: the first one is the temporary file that is created and the second one is the error (err). Now, if any error occurs, then we are going to panic and we'll throw the error as the message.

 

When you're done with the temporary file, what's recommended is you remove the file, and we can use the defer function where we have a os.Remove() method. You just have to provide the name of the file and it will find it and remove it. Now we're going to write the helloWorld into our file. Let...