# goprintconst

**Repository Path**: mirrors_jimmidyson/goprintconst

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: goprintconst
- **Description**: CLI that prints const declarations in a Go file.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-06-16
- **Last Updated**: 2025-12-14

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# goprintconst

If you use Go constants as the source of truth in your build, you might end up reading their values like this:

```sh
> grep -e "MySpecial.*=.*" "foo/bar.go"
    MySpecial    = "value"
```

This operation can be error-prone: The regular expression might be incorrect, commands like `grep` or `cut` might be unavailable. By walking the Go abstract syntax tree (AST) to find constants, `goprintconst` makes the operation reliable.

## Use

```sh
> goprintconst --file foo/bar.go --name MySpecial
value
```

By default, string and character values are unquoted. To preserve quotes, use the `-raw=false` flag:

```sh
> goprintconst --file foo/bar.go --name MySpecial -raw=false
"value"
```

## Install

```sh
go install github.com/dlipovetsky/goprintconst
```