Sutirtha Chakraborty

Golang select statement is like the switch statement, which is used for multiple channels operation. This statement blocks until any of the cases provided are ready. This post will explore the select statement in the Go programming language. Golang Select Statement Syntax The syntax of the select statement is like the switch statements. It is […]

In this post, we will see how to work with multiple goroutines. If you are looking for the basics, please go through Goroutines in Golang and Channels in Golang. Multiple Goroutines Simple Example This code shows how two goroutines will interact when running concurrently. The output order will not be maintained and each time this

Channels are a medium that the goroutines use in order to communicate effectively. It is the most important concept to grasp after understanding how goroutines work. This post aims to provide a detailed explanation of the working of the channels and their use cases in Go. Golang Channels syntax In order to use channels, we

Goroutines are one of the most important aspects of the Go programming language. It is the smallest unit of execution. This post explores the different aspects of a goroutine and how to work with it. What is a goroutine? A goroutine is a lightweight thread in Golang. It can continue its work alongside the main

Go throws panic when there is an error in runtime. The panic stops the flow of the program and produces Error. This post focuses on panic, defer and the recover method in Go. How panic works in Golang In Go, panic occurs when at runtime the code is doing something that cannot be done. E.g.

The time package allows us to do time formatting in Go. This post aims to explore different formatting methods that can be applied for time formatting in Golang. The required imports For this, to work, we need the time package to be imported. Pattern-based formatting Go supports pattern-based time formatting. A reference layout or pattern

Substrings are a part of a string. Creating it from a string is really easy in Go. This post covers the best possible ways to generate substring from a string. Get a single character from a string Getting a single character can be done using simple indexing. Here is an example. Remember to convert it

The generation of random strings is an important part of many different algorithms. This post aims to provide ways to generate random string in Golang. The naive approach This approach simply takes a string consisting of each letter and then returns a string by randomly selecting a letter from it. This is one of the

The math package in Go contains entirely of many math functions that can be used to do different things. Here are the main math functions that are used frequently. Regular math functions The most common math functions are as follows. Most of the functions work with float64 type here. We need to import the package

Go contains a scanner package that can be used to tokenize any source code written in Go. This post will provide an outline of how to use the scanner package in Go. What is tokenization? Tokenization is the method a source code is parsed to different tokens or identifiers. It is an important step used