func getExistingContent()

in generator/app.go [340:377]

• 32 lines of code
• 9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func getExistingContent(path string, fileFormat string) (string, error) {
	capture := false
	var captured []string

	beginMarker := ""
	endMarker := ""
	switch fileFormat {
	case "markdown":
		beginMarker = beginCustomMarkdown
		endMarker = endCustomMarkdown
	case "yaml":
		beginMarker = beginCustomYaml
		endMarker = endCustomYaml
	case "":
		return "", nil
	}

	// NOTE: For some reason using bufio.Scanner with existing file pointer prepends
	// a bunch of null ^@ characters, so using to ioutil.ReadFile instead.
	content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(content), "\n") {
		if strings.Contains(line, endMarker) {
			capture = false
		}
		if capture {
			captured = append(captured, line)
		}
		if strings.Contains(line, beginMarker) {
			capture = true
		}
	}

	return strings.Join(captured, "\n"), nil
}