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bigblind
bigblind

Reputation: 12877

What's the difference between a buffio.Scanner and a text/scanner.Scanner?

What's the difference between scanner.Scanner from package text/scanner, and a bufio.Scanner?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 962

Answers (2)

OneOfOne
OneOfOne

Reputation: 99351

text/scanner is more optimized for reading source code, mostly Go source:

By default, a Scanner skips white space and Go comments and recognizes all literals as defined by the Go language specification. It may be customized to recognize only a subset of those literals and to recognize different white space characters.

Upvotes: 4

fabmilo
fabmilo

Reputation: 48330

The documentation seems to explain pretty clearly.

text/scanner

A Scanner implements reading of Unicode characters and tokens from an io.Reader

bufio

Scanner provides a convenient interface for reading data such as a file of newline-delimited lines of text.

Upvotes: -4

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