From 2f645ce8e6240bc8c72b8e50a5453be451225f30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joop <Joop Kiefte>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:28:30 +0000
Subject: Initial commit

---
 example/example    | Bin 0 -> 1976408 bytes
 example/example.go |  15 +++++++++++++++
 go.mod             |   3 +++
 prompt.go          |  40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 example/example
 create mode 100644 example/example.go
 create mode 100644 go.mod
 create mode 100644 prompt.go

diff --git a/example/example b/example/example
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..592c910
Binary files /dev/null and b/example/example differ
diff --git a/example/example.go b/example/example.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13b2b7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/example.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"git.kiefte.eu/lapingvino/prompt"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	fmt.Print("Enter a string: ")
+	s := prompt.MustRead[string]()
+	fmt.Print("Now enter a complex number: ")
+	c := prompt.MustRead[complex128]()
+	fmt.Println(s, c)
+}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d27367c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module git.kiefte.eu/lapingvino/prompt
+
+go 1.18
diff --git a/prompt.go b/prompt.go
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index 0000000..6b522fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prompt.go
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package prompt
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+)
+
+type Prompter interface {
+	Prompt(string)
+}
+
+func Read[T any]() (out T, err error) {
+	nilv := out
+	b := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
+	s, err := b.ReadString('\n')
+	if err != nil {
+		return nilv, err
+	}
+	switch o := any(&out).(type) {
+	case *string:
+		*o = s[:len(s)-1]
+	case *Prompter:
+		(*o).Prompt(s)
+	default:
+		_, err = fmt.Sscan(s, &out)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nilv, err
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func MustRead[T any]() T {
+	out, err := Read[T]()
+	if err != nil {
+		panic("Error during read: "+err.Error())
+	}
+	return out
+}
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