The io package has the RuneReader interface. You can wrap a generic io.Reader in a bufio.Reader or if you already have a string or byte slice, you can use strings.Reader or bytes.Reader respectively, to get a RuneReader.
On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 10:40:34 PM UTC-7, so.q...@gmail.com wrote: > > Just a thought experiment, but what's the idiomatic way to read > rune-by-rune from a stream that represents a string of infinite length? The > stream itself can be from std.In or continually generated by a function. > > Would I use bufio.Scanner or bufio.Reader? I suppose its also possible to > use a channel. > > Also, is it correct for me to say that bufio.Reader is more primitive than > bufio.Scanner. Its not clear to me their relative purposes. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.