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+// Copyright 2012 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 scanner_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"go/scanner"
+	"go/token"
+)
+
+func ExampleScanner_Scan() {
+	// src is the input that we want to tokenize.
+	src := []byte("cos(x) + 1i*sin(x) // Euler")
+
+	// Initialize the scanner.
+	var s scanner.Scanner
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()                      // positions are relative to fset
+	file := fset.AddFile("", fset.Base(), len(src)) // register input "file"
+	s.Init(file, src, nil /* no error handler */, scanner.ScanComments)
+
+	// Repeated calls to Scan yield the token sequence found in the input.
+	for {
+		pos, tok, lit := s.Scan()
+		if tok == token.EOF {
+			break
+		}
+		fmt.Printf("%s\t%s\t%q\n", fset.Position(pos), tok, lit)
+	}
+
+	// output:
+	// 1:1	IDENT	"cos"
+	// 1:4	(	""
+	// 1:5	IDENT	"x"
+	// 1:6	)	""
+	// 1:8	+	""
+	// 1:10	IMAG	"1i"
+	// 1:12	*	""
+	// 1:13	IDENT	"sin"
+	// 1:16	(	""
+	// 1:17	IDENT	"x"
+	// 1:18	)	""
+	// 1:20	COMMENT	"// Euler"
+	// 1:28	;	"\n"
+}