Thanks everyone for the examples and suggestions! I suppose the difference the between bufio.Reader versus bufio.Scanner is that Scanner provides specific tokenizing rules/functions designed for reading text while Reader is a more general data reader (and as Tamás stated adds buffering to io.Reader).
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.
