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gophergala/food-plan-organizer: cmd/parse/main.go; 24 LoC

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Found a possible issue in [gophergala/food-plan-organizer](https://www.github.com/gophergala/food-plan-organizer) at [cmd/parse/main.go](https://github.com/gophergala/food-plan-organizer/blob/df8f4877977800bd85e6471dd143c34ea8140f3c/cmd/parse/main.go#L332-L355)

Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.

> range-loop variable fi used in defer or goroutine at line 344

[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/gophergala/food-plan-organizer/blob/df8f4877977800bd85e6471dd143c34ea8140f3c/cmd/parse/main.go#L332-L355)

Click here to show the 24 line(s) of Go which triggered the analyzer.

```go
for _, fi := range files {
if fi.Extractor != nil {

var f, _ = os.Open(path.Join(*dataDirectory, "/", fi.Name))

var r io.Reader = f
if fi.Encoding != nil {
r = transform.NewReader(r, (*fi.Encoding).NewDecoder())
}

var ch = make(chan interface{})
go func() {
if err := fi.Extractor.Parse(r, ch); err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to extract %v: %v\n", fi.Description, err)
}
close(ch)
}()

for i := range ch {
fi.h(i, db)
}

}
}

```

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commit ID: df8f4877977800bd85e6471dd143c34ea8140f3c

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