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fmt.Scan() Function in Golang With Examples

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In Go language, fmt package implements formatted I/O with functions analogous to C’s printf() and scanf() function. The fmt.Scan() function in Go language scans the input texts which is given in the standard input, reads from there and stores the successive space-separated values into successive arguments. Moreover, this function is defined under the fmt package. Here, you need to import the “fmt” package in order to use these functions.
 

Syntax:  

func Scan(a ...interface{}) (n int, err error)

Here, “a …interface{}” receives each type of the given texts.
Returns: It returns the number of items successfully scanned.
 

Example 1: 

C




// Golang program to illustrate the usage of
// fmt.Scan() function
 
// Including the main package
package main
 
// Importing fmt
import (
    "fmt"
)
 
// Calling main
func main() {
 
    // Declaring some variables
    var name string
    var alphabet_count int
 
    // Calling Scan() function for
    // scanning and reading the input
    // texts given in standard input
    fmt.Scan(&name)
    fmt.Scan(&alphabet_count)
 
    // Printing the given texts
    fmt.Printf("The word %s containing %d number of alphabets.",
               name, alphabet_count)
 
}


Input: 
 

GFG 3

Output: 
 

The word GFG containing 3 number of alphabets.

Example 2:
 

C




// Golang program to illustrate the usage of
// fmt.Scan() function
 
// Including the main package
package main
 
// Importing fmt
import (
    "fmt"
)
 
// Calling main
func main() {
 
    // Declaring some variables
    var name string
    var alphabet_count int
    var float_value float32
    var bool_value bool
 
    // Calling Scan() function for
    // scanning and reading the input
    // texts given in standard input
    fmt.Scan(&name)
    fmt.Scan(&alphabet_count)
    fmt.Scan(&float_value)
    fmt.Scan(&bool_value)
 
    // Printing the given texts
    fmt.Printf("%s %d %g %t", name,
     alphabet_count, float_value, bool_value)
 
}


Input: 
 

GeeksforGeeks 13 6.789 true

Output: 
 

GeeksforGeeks 13 6.789 true

 



Last Updated : 26 Feb, 2021
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