I am learning Golang with the book "The Go Programming Language", in chapter 5 section 5.3 (Multiple Return Values) exercise 5.5 I have to implement the function countWordAndImages
that receives an html Node from the (golang.org/x/net) package, and counts the number of words and images inside an html file, I implemented the following function, but for any reason I receive 0 values for each words
and images
returned variables.
func countWordsAndImages(n *html.Node) (words, images int) {
if n.Type == html.TextNode {
words += wordCount(n.Data)
} else if n.Type == html.ElementNode && n.Data == "img" { // if tag is img on element node
images++
}
for c := n.FirstChild; c != nil; c = n.NextSibling {
tmp_words, tmp_images := countWordsAndImages(c)
words, images = words+tmp_words, images+tmp_images
}
return words, images
}
func wordCount(s string) int {
n := 0
scan := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(s))
scan.Split(bufio.ScanWords)
for scan.Scan() {
n++
}
return n
}
I tried to avoid naming the return varibles tuple in the function ((int, int)
).
Use
c.NextSibling
to advance to the next sibling, notn.NextSibling
:https://go.dev/play/p/cm51yG8Y7Ry