CODEWITHSUNDEEP
go
KaptajnKold
KaptajnKold

Reputation: 10946

Hello World syntax error

When I try to compile the example from the front page of the go language website with the 6g compiler, I get this error:

hello.go:5: syntax error near "<string>"

I search on Google reveals that a few people have experienced this, but I have found no solution. The answer always seems to be: "It's works for me, you must do something wrong".

I've found a description of the problem that dates back 5 months, so I suspect it's not a problem with the particular build of go that I'm using. Besides, I've tried pulling a newer version, and the problem persists.

The source code in question:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
 }

Btw, I'm saving the source code as UTF-8 with LFs for newlines. It shouldn't be a text encoding issue. I've also tried with different strings not containing "exotic" characters

Upvotes: 1

Views: 360

Answers (3)

jim
jim

Reputation: 26

Try "which 6g". You might be picking up an old build. At least that was my case. I had an old 2009 build in my path. After fixing the environment it worked.

Upvotes: 1

darioo
darioo

Reputation: 47193

Problems like this are typical when there's an encoding issue.

If you're on Windows, an editor like Notepad++ can convert between many encoding formats, so I'd suggest converting your source to UTF-8 without BOM and then recompile.

If you're on Linux, there's a guide available showing you how to determine and change a document's encoding.

Upvotes: 1

Pimgd
Pimgd

Reputation: 6043

Your special characters in there might cause conflicts with the compiler. Try to save this code in multiple ways using notepad (ANSI, UTF-8), and see whether the compiler will take any of them.

Upvotes: 1

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