io.MultiReader() Function in Golang with Examples
In Go language, io packages supply fundamental interfaces to the I/O primitives. And its principal job is to enclose the ongoing implementations of such king of primitives. The MultiReader() function in Go language is used to return a “Reader” that is the logical concatenation of all the stated input readers. However, these stated readers are read in a sequence. And after all the stated input returns an EOF i.e, end of the file, “Read” will return an EOF. Moreover, this function is defined under the io package. Here, you need to import the “io” package in order to use these functions.
Syntax:
func MultiReader(readers ...Reader) Reader
Here, “readers” is the number of stated Readers.
Return value: It returns a “Reader” that is the logical concatenation of all the given input readers. And if any of the stated readers return a non-nil error or a non-EOF error then “Read” returns that error.
Below examples illustrates the use of the above method:
Example 1:
// Golang program to illustrate the usage of // io.MultiReader() function // Including main package package main // Importing fmt, io, strings, and os import ( "fmt" "io" "os" "strings" ) // Calling main func main() { // Defining readers using NewReader method reader1 := strings.NewReader( "Beginner\n" ) reader2 := strings.NewReader( "GfG\n" ) reader3 := strings.NewReader( "CS\n" ) // Calling MultiReader method with its parameters r := io.MultiReader(reader1, reader2, reader3) // Calling Copy method with its parameters Reader, err := io.Copy(os.Stdout, r) // If error is not nil then panics if err != nil { panic(err) } // Prints output fmt.Printf( "n: %v\n" , Reader) } |
Output:
Beginner GfG CS n: 13
In the above example, Copy() method is used in order to return the result of all the concatenated readers, and the NewReader() method of strings is used from where the content to be read is written.
Example 2:
// Golang program to illustrate the usage of // io.MultiReader() function // Including main package package main // Importing fmt, io, strings, and os import ( "fmt" "io" "os" "strings" ) // Calling main func main() { // Defining readers using NewReader method reader1 := strings.NewReader( "104\n" ) reader2 := strings.NewReader( "33.3\n" ) reader3 := strings.NewReader( "703243242\n" ) // Calling MultiReader method with its parameters r := io.MultiReader(reader1, reader2, reader3) // Calling Copy method with its parameters Reader, err := io.Copy(os.Stdout, r) // If error is not nil then panics if err != nil { panic(err) } // Prints output fmt.Printf( "n: %v\n" , Reader) } |
Output:
104 33.3 703243242 n: 19