go - Is there a way to do repetitive tasks at intervals in Golang? -

is there way repetitive background tasks in go? i'm thinking of timer.schedule(task, delay, period) in java. know can goroutine , time.sleep(), i'd stopped.

here's got, looks ugly me. there cleaner/better way?

func oneway() {     var f func()     var t *time.timer      f = func () {         fmt.println("doing stuff")         t = time.afterfunc(time.duration(5) * time.second, f)     }      t = time.afterfunc(time.duration(5) * time.second, f)      defer t.stop()      //simulate doing stuff     time.sleep(time.minute) } 

the function time.newticker makes channel sends periodic message, , provides way stop it. use _(untested):

ticker := time.newticker(5 * time.second) quit := make(chan struct{}) go func() {     {        select {         case <- ticker.c:             // stuff         case <- quit:             ticker.stop()             return         }     }  }() 

you can stop worker closing quit channel: close(quit).