User Input (fmt.Scan, bufio, os.Args, strconv) - Go Tutorial for Beginners #5

Learn how to read user input in Go! In this lesson, you will learn: ✅ Basic input with fmt.Scan and fmt.Scanln ✅ Reading full lines with bufio.Reader and bufio.Scanner ✅ Accessing command-line arguments with os.Args ✅ Parsing strings to numbers with strconv (Atoi, ParseFloat, ParseBool) 🕐 Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:24 - Basic Input with fmt.Scan 1:20 - Line Input with bufio 2:17 - Command Line Arguments 3:11 - Parsing with strconv 4:17 - Recap 4:47 - End 💻 Code from this lesson: // Basic input with fmt.Scan var name string fmt.Print("Enter your name: ") fmt.Scanln(&name) // Reading lines with bufio reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin) line, _ := reader.ReadString('\n') // Command-line arguments fmt.Println(os.Args[0]) // program name fmt.Println(os.Args[1]) // first argument 🔗 Previous: Lesson 4 - Numbers & Math 🔗 Next: Lesson 6 - Control Flow: if/else