rgerardi

rgerardi

Author of Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go Book Club

Hello all.

Creating this space here for general discussion and chat about Powerful Command-Line Applications In Go

In particular, we can use this topic as an entry point to share and discuss solutions to the book’s exercises. Thanks @adamwoolhether for the suggestion!

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Fernando

Fernando

I am going through the book without knowing any go programming.

“Exercises
You can improve your understanding of the concepts discussed here by doing these exercises:

Add another command-line flag, -b, to count the number of bytes in addition to words and lines.

Then, update the count function to accept another parameter, countBytes. When this input parameter is set to true, the function should count bytes. (Hint: check all the methods available for the type bufio.Scanner in the Go documentation.[12])

Write tests to ensure the new feature works as intended.”

Excerpt From: Ricardo Gerardi. “Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go.”

Test:
cat main_test.go

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"testing"
)

func TestCountWords(t *testing.T) {
	b := bytes.NewBufferString("word1 word2 word3 word4\n")
	exp := 4
	res := count(b, false, false)
	if res != exp {
		t.Errorf("Expected %d, got %d instead.\n", exp, res)
	}
}

func TestCountLines(t *testing.T) {
	b := bytes.NewBufferString("word1 word2 word3\nline2\nline3 word1")
	exp := 3
	res := count(b, true, false)
	if res != exp {
		t.Errorf("Expected %d, got %d instead.\n", exp, res)
	}
}

func TestCountBytes(t *testing.T) {
	b := bytes.NewBufferString("word1 word2 word3\n")
	exp := 18
	res := count(b, false, true)
	if res != exp {
		t.Errorf("Expected %d, got %d instead.\n", exp, res)
	}
}

cat main.go

package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	lines := flag.Bool("l", false, "Count lines")
	bytes := flag.Bool("b", false, "Count bytes")
	flag.Parse()
	fmt.Println(count(os.Stdin, *lines, *bytes))

}

func count(r io.Reader, countLines bool, countBytes bool) int {

	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(r)
	if !countLines && !countBytes {
		scanner.Split(bufio.ScanWords)
	}
	if countBytes {
		scanner.Split(bufio.ScanBytes)
	}
	wc := 0

	for scanner.Scan() {
		wc++
	}
	return wc
}
rgerardi

rgerardi

Author of Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

Looks good to me @Fernando , great work there. There are other ways to solve this exercise and, if you’re just starting with Go, you’ll see them as you read through the book.

adamwoolhether

adamwoolhether

Hi @rgerardi, thanks again for setting this up.

I’ll pop in and help reply to questions for exercises I’ve solved. I can get most of them, but am at a loss with #2 & #3 for Chapter 2.

I’m assuming that solving these requires implement the Formatter interface, and calling it in main with fmt.Printf?

Or do I write another custom method to call in the case that my verbose or incomplete flag bools are selected?

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