---
title: "excessive-blank-identifiers"
description: "Detect assignments that discard too many results."
image: "https://strider.gempir.com/og.png"
---

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# excessive-blank-identifiers

**Default severity:** `warning`

Reports assignments containing three or more blank identifiers. Repeatedly
discarding adjacent results hides a function's contract and can conceal an
important value.

## Bad

```go
value, _, _, _, err := load()
```

## Good

```go
value, metadata, err := load(); _ = metadata
```

Source: https://strider.gempir.com/lints/excessive-blank-identifiers/index.mdx