Thanks it's perfectly clear now. I actually knew that but it didn't look immediately obvious.
On Monday, August 14, 2017 at 2:51:13 PM UTC+2, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 05:43:04AM -0700, Doğan Kurt wrote: > > > > Consider combining using the bufio package and scanning form a > buffered > > > reader using fmt.Fscanf(). > > > > Great worked like a charm. I just thought i couldn't pass *bufio.Reader > to > > Fscanf which takes io.Reader. > > Oh, then that's something which you definitely should make yourself > accustomed more -- this consept is one of the corner stones of Go. > > Basically, interfaces in Go are sort-of "backwards" to what they mean in > other, "more mainstream" languages. The fact fmt.Fscanf() accepts an > io.Reader means it accepts a value of absolulely any type which > implements func Read ([]byte) (int, error). So it would accept, say, a > network socket just as fine as a bufio.Reader or bytes.Buffer or any > other custom type implementing that method. > > [1] might be a good start. > > 1. https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#interfaces_and_types > > -- 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.
