read/write lines for a text file used for inner contacts

readwriteline.go

package main

import (
    "os"
    "bufio"
    "bytes"
    "io"
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func readLines(path string) (lines []string, err error) {
	file, err := os.Open(path)
	if err != nil {
		return
	}
	defer file.Close()

	reader := bufio.NewReader(file)
	for err == nil {
		var line string
		line, err = reader.ReadString('\n')
		line = stripNewline(line)
		if err == nil || line != "" {
			lines = append(lines, line)
		}
	}
	if err == io.EOF {
		err = nil
	}
	return
}

func writeLines(lines []string, path string) (err error) {
    var (
        file *os.File
    )

    if file, err = os.Create(path); err != nil {
        return
    }
    defer file.Close()

    //writer := bufio.NewWriter(file)
    for _,item := range lines {
        //fmt.Println(item)
        _, err := file.WriteString(strings.TrimSpace(item) + "\n"); 
        //file.Write([]byte(item)); 
        if err != nil {
            //fmt.Println("debug")
            fmt.Println(err)
            break
        }
    }
    /*content := strings.Join(lines, "\n")
    _, err = writer.WriteString(content)*/
    return
}

func stripNewline(s string) string {
	switch {
	case strings.HasSuffix(s, "\r\n"):
		return s[:len(s)-2]
	case strings.HasSuffix(s, "\n"):
		return s[:len(s)-1]
	}
	return s
}

func main() {
    lines, err := readLines("foo.txt")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error: %s\n", err)
        return
    }
    for _, line := range lines {
        fmt.Println(line)
    }
    //array := []string{"7.0", "8.5", "9.1"}
    err = writeLines(lines, "foo2.txt")
    fmt.Println(err)
}

update stackoverflow version here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5884154/golang-read-text-file-into-string-array-and-write/10107708#10107708

cuz go1 has some break change, so add a gist here

it also meet quite a lot of ^@ when view in VI @mac osx 10.7

just cuz buffer.Write(part) use append mode, so we should allocate make([]byte, 0) to pass when we try to create new Buffer object

make([]byte, 0, 1024) creates a slice structure with length 0 and a capacity of 1024
previous make([]byte, 1024) is wrong.
make([]byte, 0) also wrong

use reader.ReadString instead of bytes.Buffer