Create an empty text file
<p>I've been reading and googling all over but I can't seem to find this simple answer. </p>

<p>I have a function that reads a file, but if the files doesn't exists it panics. What I want to do is a function that before reading, checks if the files exists, and if not, it creates an empty file. Here is what I have.</p>

<pre><code>func exists(path string) (bool, error) {
    _, err := os.Stat(path)
    if err == nil {
        return true, nil
    }
    if os.IsNotExist(err) {
        return false, nil
    }
    return true, err
}
</code></pre>