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How to count the total number of letters concurrently in Golang
Jeyabalaji SubramanianProblem statement
Write a concurrent Golang program to count the total number of letters in a given paragraph.
Solution approach
As we outlined in the previous chapter, the first thing to tackle in the solution is to identify the core function that we would like to run concurrently.
Now, let’s write this
package main
import (
"fmt"
"unicode/utf8"
)
func countLetters(s string, c chan int) {
c <- utf8.RuneCountInString(s)
}
func main() {
ch := make(chan int)
word1 := "Hola"
word2 := "Dias"
go countLetters(word1, ch)
letterCount1 := <-ch
go countLetters(word2, ch)
letterCount2 := <-ch
fmt.Println("Total letters in", word1, letterCount1, word2, letterCount2)
}
If you observe the above code closely, you can see anatomy of a loop. So, to complete the solution, we need to do the following:
- Given a paragraph, break this paragraph into a set of words.
- Get the word count concurrently and aggregate results into a total count.
Let’s take a look at the final solution in the below code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"time"
"unicode/utf8"
)
func countLetters(s string, c chan int) {
c <- utf8.RuneCountInString(s)
}
func main() {
ch := make(chan int)
totalCount := 0
start := time.Now()
fmt.Println("start", start)
myParagraph := "All the world is a stage"
myParagraphs := ""
for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
myParagraphs += " " + myParagraph
}
words := strings.Fields(myParagraphs)
for _, word := range words {
go countLetters(word, ch)
totalCount += <-ch
}
fmt.Println("Total letters: ", totalCount)
fmt.Println("end", time.Since(start))
}In the above example,
- For each word, a goroutine is initiated to count letters.
- The receiver accumulates the count into
totalCountvariable.
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