Read text file into string array (and write)

Question

The ability to read (and write) a text file into and out of a string array is I believe a fairly common requirement. It is also quite useful when starting with a language re

Answer 1

If the file isn't too large, this can be done with the ioutil.ReadFile and strings.Split functions like so:

content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
if err != nil {
    //Do something
}
lines := strings.Split(string(content), "\n")

You can read the documentation on ioutil and strings packages.