Read line of numbers in Go - go

Question

I have the following input, where on the first line is N - count of numbers, and on the second line N numbers, separated by space:
5
2 1 0 3 4
In Python I can read numbers without specifying its count (N):
_ = input()
numbers = list(map(int, input().split()))
How can I do the same in Go? Or I have to know exactly how many numbers are?

Answer 1

You can iterate through a file line-by-line using bufio, and the strings module can split a string into a slice. So that gets us something like:
package main
import (
"bufio"
"fmt"
"os"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
func main() {
readFile, err := os.Open("data.txt")
defer readFile.Close()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
fileScanner := bufio.NewScanner(readFile)
fileScanner.Split(bufio.ScanLines)
for fileScanner.Scan() {
// get next line from the file
line := fileScanner.Text()
// split it into a list of space-delimited tokens
chars := strings.Split(line, " ")
// create an slice of ints the same length as
// the chars slice
ints := make([]int, len(chars))
for i, s := range chars {
// convert string to int
val, err := strconv.Atoi(s)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// update the corresponding position in the
// ints slice
ints[i] = val
}
fmt.Printf("%v\n", ints)
}
}
Which given your sample data will output:
[5]
[2 1 0 3 4]

Answer 2

Since you know the delimiter and you only have 2 lines, this is also a more compact solution:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"regexp"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
func main() {
parts, err := readRaw("data.txt")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
n, nums, err := toNumbers(parts)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%d: %v\n", n, nums)
}
// readRaw reads the file in input and returns the numbers inside as a slice of strings
func readRaw(fn string) ([]string, error) {
b, err := os.ReadFile(fn)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return regexp.MustCompile(`\s`).Split(strings.TrimSpace(string(b)), -1), nil
}
// toNumbers plays with the input string to return the data as a slice of int
func toNumbers(parts []string) (int, []int, error) {
n, err := strconv.Atoi(parts[0])
if err != nil {
return 0, nil, err
}
nums := make([]int, 0)
for _, p := range parts[1:] {
num, err := strconv.Atoi(p)
if err != nil {
return n, nums, err
}
nums = append(nums, num)
}
return n, nums, nil
}
The output out be:
5: [2 1 0 3 4]