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<h2><a href="./">Go by Example</a>: Multiple Return Values</h2>
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<p>Go has built-in support for <em>multiple return values</em>.
This feature is used often in idiomatic Go, for example
to return both result and error values from a function.</p>
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<a href="http://play.golang.org/p/LrDt1Wah0M"><img title="Run code" src="play.png" class="run" /></a>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">package</span> <span class="nx">main</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="s">&quot;fmt&quot;</span>
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<p>The <code>(int, int)</code> in this function signature shows that
the function returns 2 <code>int</code>s.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">vals</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kt">int</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">7</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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<p>Here we use the 2 different return values from the
call with <em>multiple assignment</em>.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">b</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">vals</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">b</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>If you only want a subset of the returned values,
use the blank identifier <code>_</code>.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">_</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">c</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="nx">vals</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">c</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> go run multiple-return-values.go
<span class="go">3</span>
<span class="go">7</span>
<span class="go">7</span>
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<p>Accepting a variable number of arguments is another nice
feature of Go functions; we&rsquo;ll look at this next.</p>
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Next example: <a href="variadic-functions">Variadic Functions</a>.
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