Converting import stuff to a colon separated list approach.

main.go

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"database/sql"
 	"log"
-  "os/exec"
+	"strings"
-  //  "reflect"
+	"os"
 
+	"database/sql"
 	_ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
-)	
+)
 
 type active_record interface {
 	init(string, int) bool
@@ -57,16 +57,33 @@ func prep_query(db *sql.DB, q string) (*sql.Stmt){
 	return statement
 }
 
-func main() {
+func check(e error) {
-	// exec setup.sql to init
+	if e != nil {
-  cmd := exec.Command("sqlite3", "rpgqui.db < setup.sql")
+		panic(e)
-  out, err := cmd.Output()
+	}
-
+}
-  if err != nil {
+
-  	log.Print(err)
+func main() {
-  } else {
+	dat, err := os.ReadFile("setup.sql")
-  	log.Print(out)
+
-  }
+	check(err)
-
+
-//	db, _ := sql.Open("sqlite3", "words.db")
+	log.Printf("contents: \n\n%s", dat)
+
+	queries := strings.Split(string(dat), ";")
+
+	log.Print(queries)
+
+	db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", "rpgqui.db")
+
+	check(err)
+
+	for i, q := range queries {
+		log.Println(i, q)
+
+		res, err := db.Exec(q)
+		check(err)
+
+		log.Println(res)
+	}
 }