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Go Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Go Standard Library Cookbook Over 120 specific ways to make full use of the standard library components in Golang

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475273
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Radomír Sohlich Radomír Sohlich
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Interacting with the Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Strings and Things 3. Dealing with Numbers 4. Once Upon a Time 5. In and Out 6. Discovering the Filesystem 7. Connecting the Network 8. Working with Databases 9. Come to the Server Side 10. Fun with Concurrency 11. Tips and Tricks 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Synchronizing goroutines with WaitGroup

While working with concurrently running code branches, it is no exception that at some point the program needs to wait for concurrently running parts of the code. This recipe gives insight into how to use the WaitGroup to wait for running goroutines.

How to do it...

  1. Open the console and create the folder chapter10/recipe05.
  2. Navigate to the directory.
  3. Create the file syncgroup.go with the following content:
        package main

import "sync"
import "fmt"

func main() {
wg := &sync.WaitGroup{}
for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
wg.Add(1)
go func(idx int) {
// Do some work
defer wg...
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