go/token: add example for retrieving Position from Pos

There are few uses for the majority of the API in go/token for the
average user. The exception to this is getting the filename, line, and
column information from a token.Pos (reported and absolute. This is
straightforward but figuring out how to do it requires combing through
a lot of documentation. This example makes it more easily discoverable.

Updates #24352.

Change-Id: I0a45da6173b3dabebf42484bbbed30d9e5e20e01
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/100058
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/go/token/example_test.go b/src/go/token/example_test.go
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+// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package token_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"go/ast"
+	"go/parser"
+	"go/token"
+)
+
+func Example_retrievePositionInfo() {
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()
+
+	const src = `package main
+
+import "fmt"
+
+import "go/token"
+
+//line :1:5
+type p = token.Pos
+
+const bad = token.NoPos
+
+//line fake.go:42:11
+func ok(pos p) bool {
+	return pos != bad
+}
+
+/*line :7:9*/func main() {
+	fmt.Println(ok(bad) == bad.IsValid())
+}
+`
+
+	f, err := parser.ParseFile(fset, "main.go", src, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Print the location and kind of each declaration in f.
+	for _, decl := range f.Decls {
+		// Get the filename, line, and column back via the file set.
+		// We get both the relative and absolute position.
+		// The relative position is relative to the last line directive.
+		// The absolute position is the exact position in the source.
+		pos := decl.Pos()
+		relPosition := fset.Position(pos)
+		absPosition := fset.PositionFor(pos, false)
+
+		// Either a FuncDecl or GenDecl, since we exit on error.
+		kind := "func"
+		if gen, ok := decl.(*ast.GenDecl); ok {
+			kind = gen.Tok.String()
+		}
+
+		// If the relative and absolute positions differ, show both.
+		fmtPosition := relPosition.String()
+		if relPosition != absPosition {
+			fmtPosition += "[" + absPosition.String() + "]"
+		}
+
+		fmt.Printf("%s: %s\n", fmtPosition, kind)
+	}
+
+	//Output:
+	//
+	// main.go:3:1: import
+	// main.go:5:1: import
+	// main.go:1:5[main.go:8:1]: type
+	// main.go:3:1[main.go:10:1]: const
+	// fake.go:42:11[main.go:13:1]: func
+	// fake.go:7:9[main.go:17:14]: func
+}