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Golang program to pause program execution for the specified duration

Here, we are going to learn how to pause program execution for the specified duration in Golang (Go Language)?
Submitted by Nidhi, on March 21, 2021 [Last updated : March 04, 2023]

Pausing program's execution for the specified duration in Golang

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will pause program execution for a specified duration using the Sleep() function.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to pause program execution for a specified duration is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

Golang code to pause program execution for the specified duration

// Golang program to pause function execution
// for the specified duration

package main

import "fmt"
import "time"

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello World")
	time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
	fmt.Println("Hello India")
}

Output:

Hello World
Hello India

Explanation:

In the above program, we declare the package main. The main package is used to tell the Go language compiler that the package must be compiled and produced the executable file. Here, we imported the fmt package that includes the files of package fmt then we can use a function related to the fmt package.

In the main() function, we used time.Sleep() method to pause program execution. Here, we sleep program for 500 milliseconds and print the messages on the console screen.

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