How to use fmt.scanln read from a string separated by spaces

Question

Want "30 of month" but get "30"

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    var s string
    fmt.Scanln(&s)
    fmt.Println(s)
    return
}

$ go run test.go
31 of month
31

Scanln is similar to Scan, but stops scanning at a newline and after the final item there must be a newline or EOF.

Solution 1

The fmt Scan family scan space-separated tokens.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    var s1 string
    var s2 string
    fmt.Scanln(&s1,&s2)
    fmt.Println(s1)
    fmt.Println(s2)
    return
}

You can try bufio scan

package main
import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)
    for scanner.Scan() {
        s := scanner.Text()
        fmt.Println(s)
    }
    if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

Solution 2

If you really want to include the spaces, you may consider using fmt.Scanf() with format %q a double-quoted string safely escaped with Go syntax , for example:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    var s string
    fmt.Scanf("%q", &s)
    fmt.Println(s)
    return
}

Run it and:

$ go run test.go
"31 of month"
31 of month

Solution 3

Here is the working program

package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    var strInput string
    fmt.Println("Enter a string ")
    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)

    if scanner.Scan() {
        strInput = scanner.Text()
    }
    
    fmt.Println(strInput)
}

which reads strings like " d skd a efju N" and prints the same string as output.

Comments

[Shuumatsu]

thx...but if I put fmt.Println(s) outside of the loop, no values will be output. how can i stop the loop

[trquoccuong]

func main() { scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin) if ok := scanner.Scan();ok { fmt.Println(scanner.Text()) } } scanner.Scan() will return bool when end scan

[Ishan Jain]

Second snippet worked great. Why are you checking for error after for loop ? would the if else block be executed here in case of an error ? Because there is a infinite for loop before it.

[tsar2512]

@trquoccuong - I have the same query as Ishan above, doesn't checking for the error after fmt.Println(s), break things? you are checking scanner.Err() after printing the scan?

[kamal]

bufio solution is great!

[Bayequentist]

I have to use an if statement instead of for loop, so that the program will proceed after the first input. If I use a for loop, the program will keep asking me for input forever. How would I get out of the loop if I used a for loop?

[Venkataramana Madugula]

I agree with @Zass

[gondo]

question specifically asked about fmt.scanln, not how to achieve same result with different method

[Dejan Toteff]

I voted up as this question is accessable from search engine and it indeed works

[Fernando Torres]

With this approach i'm getting: expected quoted string trying to input "hello world" string

[eemz]

gondo the answer is "you can't do this with scanln"