Daily programmer

gistfile1.go

/**
 * Daily programmer weekly challenge http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/2a3pzl/weekly_1_handling_console_input/
 */
package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"log"
	"os"
	"strconv"
)

func readlinesfrom(fd *os.File) (words []string, err error) {
	var wordcount int
	bio := bufio.NewReader(fd)
	line, hasMoreInLine, err := bio.ReadLine()
	if hasMoreInLine {
		log.Println("buffer out of space")
	}
	if err != nil {
		log.Panic(err)
	}
	wordcount, err = strconv.Atoi(string(line))
	if err != nil {
		log.Panic(err)
	}
	words = make([]string, wordcount)
	for i := 0; i < wordcount; i++ {

		line, hasMoreInLine, err := bio.ReadLine()
		if hasMoreInLine {
			log.Println("buffer out of space")
		}
		if err != nil {
			log.Panic(err)
		}
		words[i] = string(line)
	}
	return
}
func main() {
	words, err := readlinesfrom(os.Stdin)
	if err != nil {
		log.Panic("couldn't readj lines")
	}
	log.Println(words)
}