Just one small nitpick:
you should call defer file.Close() after you've performed your error check. If you failed to open a file, then there's no need to try and close it!
defer file.Close()
Makes sense. Thanks for highlighting it to me :)
Updated the example.
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Just one small nitpick:
you should call
defer file.Close()after you've performed your error check.If you failed to open a file, then there's no need to try and close it!
Makes sense. Thanks for highlighting it to me :)
Updated the example.