organizing/adding some useful snippets in go folder

snippets/read-file/main.go

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+package main
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	stringSlice := readInputFile("./input.txt")
+	fmt.Println(stringSlice)
+}
+
+// helper function to put the input file into a slice of strings
+// (each elements is a line of the txt file)
+func readInputFile(path string) []string {
+	// var pixelString string
+	resultSlice := make([]string, 0)
+	absPath, _ := filepath.Abs(path)
+
+	file, err := os.Open(absPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
+	for scanner.Scan() {
+		line := scanner.Text()
+		// pixelString = line
+		resultSlice = append(resultSlice, line)
+	}
+
+	// return pixelString
+	return resultSlice
+}