Convert list to markdown link

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This is snippet to convert multiple list to markdown link using golang. In this example we have file called file.txt with the following content

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- valutac.com
- oonlab.com
- mozilla.org
- google.com
- microsoft.com

We want to convert all the list to markdown link and put the result into newfile.txt file, the content should be like this:

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- [oonlab.com](http://oonlab.com)
- [valutac.com](http://valutac.com)
- [mozilla.org](http://mozilla.org)
- [google.com](http://google.com)
- [microsoft.com](http://microsoft.com)

Here’s the snippet using go with io/ioutil, fmt and string lib.

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	b, _ := ioutil.ReadFile("file.txt")
	split := strings.Split(string(b), "\n")
	var rows string
	for _, row := range split {
		if len(row) < 3 {
			continue
		}
		s := row[2:len(row)]
		rows += fmt.Sprintf("- [%s](http://%s)\n", s, s)
	}
	ioutil.WriteFile("newfile,txt", []byte(rows), 0600)
}

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