golang sleep

To sleep for a specific duration in the Go programming language (Golang), you can use the time.Sleep() function. This function pauses the execution of the current goroutine (a lightweight thread of execution in Golang) for the specified duration.

Here's an example of how to use the time.Sleep() function:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Before sleep")

    // Sleep for 2 seconds
    time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)

    fmt.Println("After sleep")
}

In the above example, the program will print "Before sleep", then pause for 2 seconds using time.Sleep(2 * time.Second), and finally print "After sleep".

Note: The time.Sleep() function takes a duration as an argument. In the example above, we pass 2 * time.Second to pause the execution for 2 seconds. You can adjust the duration according to your needs by multiplying the desired number of seconds with time.Second, or use other time units such as time.Millisecond or time.Minute.

That's it! The time.Sleep() function allows you to introduce delays in your Golang programs.