Read files in Golang is one of the most common operations. Golang has an io/ioutil package that provides ReadFile() function. The ioutil.ReadFile() function reads an entire file into memory. We will use os, io, and bufio packages.

How To Read Files In Golang

We can read files in many ways in Go. Let’s list them all.

1. Reading an entire file into memory (as we have discussed).
2. Reading a file in small chunks
3. Reading a file line by line

Let’s discuss these ways in-depth.

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