I'm new programming with Go. I've been writing this little program that uses structures. It's a structure called user, which has as values, first name, last name and age. The problem lies when entering data, more specifically when it comes to entering the last name, this error happens: a screenshot of the error
You can see from the image that when you introduces data in the name field, ignores last name field, and jumps to age.
Having knowledge in C, this error happens when the buffer has not been flushed. (but C is a different language from Go)
As I know, Go stdin read is unbuffered. So how would you solve this problem?
Here's the code:
package main
import "fmt"
type user struct {
name, surnm string
age int
}
func main() {
n := new(user)
fmt.Print("Name? ")
fmt.Scanf("%s", &n.name)
fmt.Print("Last name? ")
fmt.Scanf("%s", &n.surnm)
fmt.Print("Age? ")
fmt.Scanf("%d", &n.age)
fmt.Println(n.name)
fmt.Println(n.surnm)
fmt.Println(n.age)
}
Sorry if my question is a little bit stupid, but how I said, I am new at Go.
This is a little difficult to reproduce on go 1.11 on Ubuntu I am guessing you are using a Microsoft operating system of some sort Microsoft have line endings of , return + newline whereas Unix-like systems have just newline only
If I fake up an input file for your program that has line endings it does seem to skip
Whereas an input file with only makes the program work correctly
Adding explicit to the pattern as shown seems to fix the problem
fmt.Print("Name? ")
fmt.Scanf("%s", &n.name)
fmt.Print("Last name? ")
fmt.Scanf("%s", &n.surnm)
fmt.Print("Age? ")
fmt.Scanf("%d", &n.age)
This is curious as the go documentation on scanf states
In all the scanning functions, a carriage return followed immediately by a newline is treated as a plain newline ( means the same as ).
To be fair, once the changes above are made the code behaves the same for files and files