// Copyright © 2016 Alan A. A. Donovan & Brian W. Kernighan. // License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ // See page 173. // Bytecounter demonstrates an implementation of io.Writer that counts bytes. package main import ( "fmt" ) //!+bytecounter type ByteCounter int func (c *ByteCounter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { *c += ByteCounter(len(p)) // convert int to ByteCounter return len(p), nil } //!-bytecounter func main() { //!+main var c ByteCounter c.Write([]byte("hello")) fmt.Println(c) // "5", = len("hello") c = 0 // reset the counter var name = "Dolly" fmt.Fprintf(&c, "hello, %s", name) fmt.Println(c) // "12", = len("hello, Dolly") //!-main }