How to Create an Empty File in Golang?
Like other programming languages, Go language also allows you to create files. For creating a file it provides Create() function, this function is used to create or truncates the given named file.
- This method will truncate the file, if the given file is already exists.
- This method will create a file with mode 0666, if the given file doesn’t exist.
- If the given path is not correct, then this method will throw an error of type *PathError.
- This method return a file descriptor which can be used for both reading and write.
- It is defined under the os package so, you have to import os package in your program for accessing Create() function.
Syntax:
func Create(file_name string) (*File, error)
Example 1:
// Golang program to illustrate how to create // an empty file in the default directory package main import ( "log" "os" ) func main() { // Creating an empty file // Using Create() function myfile, e := os.Create( "w3wiki.txt" ) if e != nil { log.Fatal(e) } log.Println(myfile) myfile.Close() } |
Output:
Example 2:
// Golang program to illustrate how to create // an empty file in the new directory package main import ( "log" "os" ) func main() { // Creating an empty file // Using Create() function myfile, e := os.Create( "/Users/anki/Documents/new_folder/w3wiki.txt" ) if e != nil { log.Fatal(e) } log.Println(myfile) myfile.Close() } |
Output:
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