Read a board from the command line

[slidingtile] / sliding_tile.go

package main

import "fmt"
import "os"
import "strconv"

const HOLE = 0
const BOARD_SIZE = 16

type Space int8
type Board [BOARD_SIZE]Space

func read_board_from_strings(in []string) (*Board, error) {
  if len(in) != BOARD_SIZE {
    return nil, fmt.Errorf("Please provide %d values", BOARD_SIZE)
  }
  var b Board
  for i, s := range in {
    num, err := strconv.Atoi(s)
    b[i] = Space(num)
    if err != nil {
      return nil, err
    }
  }
  return &b, nil
}

func main() {
  start, err := read_board_from_strings(os.Args[1:])
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  fmt.Println(start)
}