How can I read from standard input in the console?

Question

I would like to read standard input from the command line, but my attempts have ended with the program exiting before I'm prompted for input. I'm looking for the equivalent of [Console.ReadLine()](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/system.console.readline%28v=vs.110%29.aspx) in C#.

This is what I currently have:

package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
    fmt.Print("Enter text: ")
    text, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
    fmt.Println(text)

    fmt.Println("Enter text: ")
    text2 := ""
    fmt.Scanln(text2)
    fmt.Println(text2)

    ln := ""
    fmt.Sscanln("%v", ln)
    fmt.Println(ln)
}

Answer

I'm not sure what's wrong with the block

reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
fmt.Print("Enter text: ")
text, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
fmt.Println(text)

As it works on my machine. However, for the next block you need a pointer to the variables you're assigning the input to. Try replacing fmt.Scanln(text2) with fmt.Scanln(&text2). Don't use Sscanln, because it parses a string already in memory instead of from stdin. If you want to do something like what you were trying to do, replace it with fmt.Scanf("%s", &ln)

If this still doesn't work, your culprit might be some weird system settings or a buggy IDE.