Golang, is there a better way read a file of integers into an array?

Question

I need to read a file of integers into an array. I have it working with this:

package main

import (
    \"fmt\"
    \"io\"
    \"os\"
)

func readFile(filePath         


        

Answer 1

Using a bufio.Scanner makes things nice. I've also used an io.Reader rather than taking a filename. Often that's a good technique, since it allows the code to be used on any file-like object and not just a file on disk. Here it's "reading" from a string.

package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
)

// ReadInts reads whitespace-separated ints from r. If there's an error, it
// returns the ints successfully read so far as well as the error value.
func ReadInts(r io.Reader) ([]int, error) {
    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(r)
    scanner.Split(bufio.ScanWords)
    var result []int
    for scanner.Scan() {
        x, err := strconv.Atoi(scanner.Text())
        if err != nil {
            return result, err
        }
        result = append(result, x)
    }
    return result, scanner.Err()
}

func main() {
    tf := "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6"
    ints, err := ReadInts(strings.NewReader(tf))
    fmt.Println(ints, err)
}