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Searching for Help and Documenting the Code

Discover how to use the godoc command to generate and access documentation for Go packages and functions. Learn to extract comments for code explanation and run a local server for offline help. This lesson helps you efficiently find support and document your Go programs.

Basics of godoc command

The command godoc extracts and generates documentation for Go programs and packages. It extracts comments that appear before top-level declarations in the source code with no intervening newlines. Together with the declaration, they serve as explanatory text for the item. It can also function as a web server delivering documentation; this is how the golang-website ...

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