Extracting substrings in Go

Question

I\'m trying to read an entire line from the console (including whitespace), then process it. Using bufio.ReadString, the newline character is read together with the input, s

Answer 1

8 years later I stumbled upon this gem, and yet I don't believe OP's original question was really answered:

so I came up with the following code to trim the newline character

While the bufio.Reader type supports a ReadLine() method which both removes \r\n and \n it is meant as a low-level function which is awkward to use because repeated checks are necessary.

IMO an idiomatic way to remove whitespace is to use Golang's strings library:

input, _ = src.ReadString('\n')

// more specific to the problem of trailing newlines
actual = strings.TrimRight(input, "\r\n")

// or if you don't mind to trim leading and trailing whitespaces 
actual := strings.TrimSpace(input)

See this example in action in the Golang playground: https://play.golang.org/p/HrOWH0kl3Ww