In your example, you are repeatedly reading one 'item' from the line. This is the source of the confusion, as this is not how Fscanln works - when you do this, *each* item is the documented 'final item' after which there must be a newline.
That is, your data would look more like this: space separated column headers first second third last some data with the same pattern of columns and your read would be pulling all of those items from one line: fmt.Fscanln(in2,&one,&two,&three,&four) It is expected/designed to read one line of data at a time, and for you to know in advance the number of items in the line, and to expect to receive an error if they don't match. It is also expected that each column will have a consistent datatype, and for that to match the types of your parameters, and to error if the data can't be parsed. For parsing arbitrary string data, you might be better off just using bufio.Scanner with bufio.ScanWords. -- 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. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d13f4b65-3161-43bf-b83e-a04be58d2059n%40googlegroups.com.
