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Scanln only accepts a bare y + clear the stream

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

The issue names files.go and command.go as the places to change. Start by finding where the accept/reject prompt reads user input and how it currently matches 'y'. Done when 'yes' and '1' accept, 'no' and '0' reject, and trailing text such as 'please' is consumed from the input rather than left in the stream. The issue names no test file, so add a case for each input form.

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Description

enhancement good first issue

##What
Want to increase the accept/reject options and clear the stream.

##Where
files.go and command.go

##Fixes
Want to accept 'yes' and 1, reject 'no', 0. Also if someone writes 'y please' it sees the y accepts but the please stays in the stream. Makes sure that it is cleared from the stream

Dominant language
Go
Stars
1
Forks
2
Avg merge
1h 46m
Merged PRs (30d)
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