First Go program. Iterates over a map and reads the content of a given directory.

firstprog.go

package main

import "fmt"
import "os" 

func main() {
  m := make(map[string]int)

  m["foo"] = 1
  m["blah"] = 2

  for i := range m {
    value, _ := m[i]
    fmt.Printf("Value for key %s: %d\n", i, value)
  }

  file, err := os.Open("/Users/Bertrand")

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    os.Exit(1)
  }
  currDirFiles, err := file.Readdir(0)
  // Quite redundant
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    os.Exit(1)
  }

  for _, elem := range currDirFiles {
    fmt.Printf("Name of the file: %s\n", elem.Name())
  }

}