a disposable script to process a temporary text file

extractChars.go

package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	f, err := os.Open("chara-counts.txt")
	defer f.Close()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	rd := bufio.NewReader(f)
	for {
		line, err := rd.ReadString('\n')
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
		cols := strings.Split(strings.Trim(line, "\n"), " ")
		charNum := cols[4]
		studentID := strings.Split(cols[5], "@")[0]
		fmt.Println(charNum, studentID) // dirty
	}
}