In case anyone stumbles across this thread, here's a tempfile library that supports file suffix: https://github.com/tink-ab/tempfile
Also, if you'd like to track this upstream in Golang standard library, you can do that here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4896 Cheers, Jens On Monday, May 27, 2013 at 9:23:09 AM UTC+2, meta keule wrote: > > Hi, > > can somebody enlighten me why ioutil/TempFile takes a prefix for a > filename instead of a suffix? > Everytime I need it, I also need to make sure to keep the file extension. > > That would be easily achieved with a suffix. > > The way it works now, I can't use TempFile or need to move the generated > file > (what may result in a conflict). > > > Regards, > Benny > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
