golang can read keyboard input from the console. In this section you will learn how to do that..
To get keyboard input, first open a console to run your program in. Then it will ask for keyboard input and display whatever you’ve typed.
Keyboard input in golang
Example
The golang program below gets keyboard input and saves it into a string variable. The string variable is then shown to the screen.
package main
import (
"bufio"
"fmt"
"os"
)
func main() {
reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
fmt.Print("Enter your city: ")
city, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
fmt.Print("You live in " + city)
}The data that we read from the console (keyboard), is stored in a variable and printed to the screen. Sample output of program. ``` bash
Enter city name: Sydney You live in Sydney
This line will get keyboard input and store it in a variable:
go
necessary
reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
read line from console
city, _ := reader.ReadString(‘’) ``` You can get as many input variables as you want, simply by duplicating this line and changing the variable names. ### Exercises
- Make a program that lets the user input a name
- Get a number from the console and check if it’s between 1 and 10.