package main

import (
        "bufio"
        "bytes"
        "fmt"
        //"os"
        "regexp"
	"net"
)

func main() {
        re := regexp.MustCompile("(gopher){2}")

        //string
        mystring := "gophergopher"
        fmt.Println(re.MatchString(mystring))

        //byte array
        fmt.Println(re.Match([]byte(mystring)))

        //bytes.Buffer but needs to be put to []bytes or string?
        var a_buffer bytes.Buffer
        a_buffer.WriteString(mystring)
        fmt.Println(re.Match(a_buffer.Bytes()))

        conn, _ := net.Dial("tcp", "127.0.0.1:8081")
	// send to socket echo server
	fmt.Fprintf(conn, mystring+"\n")
	message, _ := bufio.NewReader(conn).ReadBytes('\n')
	fmt.Println(re.Match(message))

	fmt.Fprintf(conn, mystring+"\n")
	message2, _ := bufio.NewReader(conn).ReadString('\n')
	fmt.Println(re.MatchString(message2))

}
/**
$ go run example.go
true
true
true
true
true
**/