go.notes

package main 
	//every independent package starts with this
import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"log"
//	"syscall"
)
	// same as include <stdio.h> for those who knows C

func main() {
	var input string
	fmt.Print("Give a file to Open: ")
	fmt.Scanf("%s",&input)
	fmt.Println(input)	
	file, err := os.Open(input)
	defer file.Close()

	if err != nil {
	//fmt.Println("Something goes wrong with the file man ...")
		log.Fatal(err)
		return
		}
	fd :=file.Fd()
	fmt.Printf("File descriptor is %d\n",fd)
	
	//  this won't work, (my guess is that) Read takes
	// an slice as argument instead of array

	// var byte_array [50]byte
	stat, err := file.Stat()	
	byte_array := make([]byte, stat.Size())

	_, err = file.Read(byte_array)

	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
		return
		}
	fmt.Println(string(byte_array))
}