Scanner (EmptyFinalToken) in Go
Use a Scanner with a custom split function to parse a comma-separated list with an empty final value.
package main
import (
"bufio"
"fmt"
"os"
"strings"
)
func main() {
// Comma-separated list; last entry is empty.
const input = "1,2,3,4,"
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(input))
// Define a split function that separates on commas.
onComma := func(data []byte, atEOF bool) (advance int, token []byte, err error) {
for i := 0; i < len(data); i++ {
if data[i] == ',' {
return i + 1, data[:i], nil
}
}
if !atEOF {
return 0, nil, nil
}
// There is one final token to be delivered, which may be the empty string.
// Returning bufio.ErrFinalToken here tells Scan there are no more tokens after this
// but does not trigger an error to be returned from Scan itself.
return 0, data, bufio.ErrFinalToken
}
scanner.Split(onComma)
// Scan.
for scanner.Scan() {
fmt.Printf("%q ", scanner.Text())
}
if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "reading input:", err)
}
}