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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

Reading and writing data records

This section will teach you how to deal with writing and reading data records. What differentiates a record from other kinds of text data is that a record has a given structure with a specific number of fields: think of it as a row from a table in a relational database. Actually, records can be very useful for storing data in tables in case you want to develop your own database server in Go!

The Go code of records.go will save data in the CSV format and will be presented in four parts. The first part contains the following Go code:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "encoding/csv" 
   "fmt" 
   "os" 
) 

So, this is where you have to declare that you are going to read or write data in the CSV format. The second part is the following:

func main() { 
   if len(os.Args) != 2 { 
         fmt.Println("Need just one filename...
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