[go-nuts] Re: can't open file if its name was read from stdin

Good, that you found the problem yourself. I wasn't aware that you were on Windows were newlines are represented by CRLF ("\r\n"). TrimSpace would deal with that as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this

[go-nuts] Re: can't open file if its name was read from stdin

I found the solution myself - when read in from stdin, there are 2 extra characters - CR and LF. I just cut the string 2 characters before the end, and it works! Thanks to those for posting replies! On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 11:35:31 PM UTC-4, Geoff Fridd wrote: > > Does anyone know why

[go-nuts] Re: can't open file if its name was read from stdin

ReadString returns the line including the terminating newline ('\n'). You can check it with fmt.Printf("filename: %q\n", filename). One option to fix it is using function strings.TrimSpace. It will remove all space characters at the start and the end of the string. -- You received this