Mastering Go - Second Edition

Generating text output

If you need to create plain text output, then using the text/template package is a good choice. The use of the text/template package will be illustrated in textT.go, which will be presented in five parts.

As templates are usually stored in external files, the example presented will use the text.gotext template file, which will be analyzed in three parts. Data is typically read from text files or from the Internet. However, for reasons of simplicity, the data for textT.go will be hardcoded in the program using a slice.

We will start by looking at the Go code of textT.go. The first code portion of textT.go is as follows:

package main 
 
import ( 
    "fmt" 
    "os" 
    "text/template" 
) 

The second code segment from textT.go is as follows: ...