How to read a text file in Golang

This tutorial is about how you can read a text file in Golang using the ReadFile function.

ioutil.ReadFile function reads the text file named by filename and returns the contents as an array of bytes([]byte). It returns an error if the filename is not found.

func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error)

Example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    
)

func main () {
    contents, err := ioutil.ReadFile("./examples/hello-world.txt")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Print(err.Error())
        return
    }
    fmt.Print(string(contents)) // "Hello World!"
}

Note: If you're using Golang 1.16 or above then you can use os.ReadFile instead of ioutil.ReadFile function

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