Golang Programming Examples

Go Pointers

golang

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
   var a int = 10   
   fmt.Printf("Address of a variable: %x\n", &a  )
}

Go Passing arrays to functions

golang

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
   /* an int array with 5 elements */
   var  balance = []int {1000, 2, 3, 17, 50}
   var avg float32

   /* pass array as an argument */
   avg = getAverage( balance, 5 ) ;

   /* output the returned value */
   fmt.Printf( "Average value is: %f ", avg );
}
func getAverage(arr []int, size int) float32 {
   var i,sum int
   var avg float32  

   for i = 0; i < size;i++ {
      sum += arr[i]
   }

   avg = float32(sum / size)
   return avg;
}

Accessing Two-Dimensional Array Elements in Go

golang

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
   /* an array with 5 rows and 2 columns*/
   var a = [5][2]int{ {0,0}, {1,2}, {2,4}, {3,6},{4,8}}
   var i, j int

   /* output each array element's value */
   for  i = 0; i < 5; i++ {
      for j = 0; j < 2; j++ {
         fmt.Printf("a[%d][%d] = %d\n", i,j, a[i][j] )
      }
   }
}

Go Accessing Array Elements

golang

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
   var n [10]int /* n is an array of 10 integers */
   var i,j int

   /* initialize elements of array n to 0 */         
   for i = 0; i < 10; i++ {
      n[i] = i + 100 /* set element at location i to i + 100 */
   }
   /* output each array element's value */
   for j = 0; j < 10; j++ {
      fmt.Printf("Element[%d] = %d\n", j, n[j] )
   }
}

Go Concatenating Strings

golang

package main

import ("fmt" "math" )"fmt" "strings")

func main() {
   greetings :=  []string{"Hello","world!"}   
   fmt.Println(strings.Join(greetings, " "))
}

Go Creating Strings

golang

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
   var greeting =  "Hello world!"
   
   fmt.Printf("normal string: ")
   fmt.Printf("%s", greeting)
   fmt.Printf("\n")
   fmt.Printf("hex bytes: ")
   
   for i := 0; i < len(greeting); i++ {
       fmt.Printf("%x ", greeting[i])
   }
   fmt.Printf("\n")
   
   const sampleText = "\xbd\xb2\x3d\xbc\x20\xe2\x8c\x98" 
   /*q flag escapes unprintable characters, with + flag it escapses non-ascii 
   characters as well to make output unambigous  
   */
   fmt.Printf("quoted string: ")
   fmt.Printf("%+q", sampleText)
   fmt.Printf("\n")  
}

Go Formal Parameters

golang

package main

import "fmt"
 
/* global variable declaration */
var a int = 20;
 
func main() {
   /* local variable declaration in main function */
   var a int = 10
   var b int = 20
   var c int = 0

   fmt.Printf("value of a in main() = %d\n",  a);
   c = sum( a, b);
   fmt.Printf("value of c in main() = %d\n",  c);
}
/* function to add two integers */
func sum(a, b int) int {
   fmt.Printf("value of a in sum() = %d\n",  a);
   fmt.Printf("value of b in sum() = %d\n",  b);

   return a + b;
}

Go Global Variables

golang

package main

import "fmt"
 
/* global variable declaration */
var g int
 
func main() {
   /* local variable declaration */
   var a, b int

   /* actual initialization */
   a = 10
   b = 20
   g = a + b

   fmt.Printf("value of a = %d, b = %d and g = %d\n", a, b, g)
}

Go Scope Rules

golang

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
   /* local variable declaration */
   var a, b, c int 

   /* actual initialization */
   a = 10
   b = 20
   c = a + b

   fmt.Printf ("value of a = %d, b = %d and c = %d\n", a, b, c)
}

Go Method

golang

package main

import (
   "fmt" 
   "math" 
)

/* define a circle */
type Circle struct {
   x,y,radius float64
}

/* define a method for circle */
func(circle Circle) area() float64 {
   return math.Pi * circle.radius * circle.radius
}

func main(){
   circle := Circle{x:0, y:0, radius:5}
   fmt.Printf("Circle area: %f", circle.area())
}

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