Scanner (Words) in Go

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Use a Scanner to implement a simple word-count utility by scanning the input as a sequence of space-delimited tokens.

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package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	// An artificial input source.
	const input = "Now is the winter of our discontent,\nMade glorious summer by this sun of York.\n"
	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(input))
	// Set the split function for the scanning operation.
	scanner.Split(bufio.ScanWords)
	// Count the words.
	count := 0
	for scanner.Scan() {
		count++
	}
	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "reading input:", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("%d\n", count)
}