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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

A handy command-line utility

In this section, we will develop a handy command-line utility that reads a number of web pages, which can be found in a text file or read from standard input, and returns the number of times a given keyword was found in these web pages. In order to be faster, the utility will use goroutines to get the desired data and a monitoring process to gather the data and present it on the screen. The name of the utility will be findKeyword.go and will be presented in five parts.

The first part of the utility is the following:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "bufio" 
   "fmt" 
   "net/http" 
   "net/url" 
   "os" 
   "regexp" 
) 
 
type Data struct { 
   URL     string 
   Keyword string 
   Times   int 
   Error   error 
} 

The Data struct type will be used for passing information between channels.

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