Scan() returns false when it reaches EOF or an error, so with what you
provided i assume you're missing to check that.
for ns.Scan() {
...
}
or
for {
if !ns.Scan() {
break
}
-wgr
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:36 PM Trig <edb1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm currently utilizing the bufio.NewScanner to read ASCII data from a serial
> port. I have the following simple code:
>
> ns := bufio.NewScanner(sPort)
>
> for {
> ns.Scan()
> if ns.Text() != "" { // ignore blank lines
> // handle content here
> }
> }
>
> The problem is ns.Scan() blocks the loop from continuing if there isn't any
> data. This leaves me unable to break out of the loop with a for condition or
> a select statement also within the loop which is looking for a close command
> from a channel before or after it, etc. Am I doing something wrong, or is
> there a proper way to handle this?
>
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