How to check if a file exists in Go?

Question

Go\'s standard library does not have a function solely intended to check if a file exists or not (like Python\'s os.path.exists). What is the idiomatic way

Answer 1

basicly

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func fileExists(path string) bool {
    _, err := os.Stat(path)
    return !os.IsNotExist(err)
}

func main() {

    var file string = "foo.txt"
    exist := fileExists(file)
    
    if exist {
        fmt.Println("file exist")
    } else {

        fmt.Println("file not exists")
    }

}

run example

other way

with os.Open

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func fileExists(path string) bool {
    _, err := os.Open(path) // For read access.
    return err == nil

}

func main() {

    fmt.Println(fileExists("d4d.txt"))

}

run it