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Go Systems Programming

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Go Systems Programming

Overview of this book

Go is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. It is also the language in which some of the most prominent cloud-level systems have been written, such as Docker. Where C programmers used to rule, Go programmers are in demand to write highly optimized systems programming code. Created by some of the original designers of C and Unix, Go expands the systems programmers toolkit and adds a mature, clear programming language. Traditional system applications become easier to write since pointers are not relevant and garbage collection has taken away the most problematic area for low-level systems code: memory management. This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Using regular expressions

This section will illustrate how to add support for regular expressions in finalFind.go: the name of the last version of the tool will be regExpFind.go. The new flag will be called -re and it will require a string value: anything that matches this string value will be included in the output unless it is excluded by another command-line option. Additionally, due to the flexibility that flags offer, we do not need to delete any of the previous options in order to add another one!

Once again, the diff(1) command will tell us the code differences between regExpFind.go and finalFind.go:

$ diff regExpFind.go finalFind.go
8d7
<     "regexp"
36,44d34
< func regularExpression(path, regExp string) bool {
<     if regExp == "" {
<           return true
<     }
<     r, _ := regexp.Compile(regExp)
<     matched := r.MatchString...