4.3.3: Example - Filehandle Iterators

Go already provides a good package to read a file line by line. It is bufio.Reader so this iterator is simply a wrapper around that reader.

type fh struct {
    in   *bufio.Reader
    line string
    err  error
}

func Fh(in io.Reader) i.Forward {
    f := fh{in: bufio.NewReader(in)}
    f.Next()
    return &f
}

func (f *fh) Error() error {
    if f.err == io.EOF {
        return nil
    }
    return f.err
}

func (f *fh) Value() interface{} {
    return f.line
}

func (f *fh) AtEnd() bool {
    return f.err == io.EOF
}

We need to check if err is io.EOF or any other error since io.EOF is not an error condition but simply an EOS indicator. Everything else is pretty much self explanatory.

func (f *fh) Next() error {
    if f.line, f.err = f.in.ReadString('\n'); f.err != nil && f.err != io.EOF {
        return f.err
    }
    // chomp
    f.line = strings.TrimSuffix(f.line, "\n")
    return nil
}

The Next() function will read the next line from the file and chomp of the new line indicator.

i.Each(
    Fh(os.Stdin),
    func(itr i.Iterator) bool {
        line, _ := itr.Value().(string)
        fmt.Println("Line: " + line)
        return true
    })

Usage is same as before.
Get the source at GitHub.