Convert a Slice of Any Type to a CSV in Go

There are times, mostly for logging and debugging, when you have a slice of a given type that you would like to print to a log file or just convert to a CSV of values.

A quick and easy way to convert a slice to a CSV in Golang is to use the json module to Marshal it a JSON encoded array.

For example

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	ints := []int64{1, 2, 3, 4}
	intsCSV, _ := json.Marshal(ints)
	fmt.Printf("ints = %s\n", intsCSV)

	floats := []float64{3.14, 6.47}
	floatsCSV, _ := json.Marshal(floats)
	fmt.Printf("floats = %s\n", floatsCSV)
}