How do I read a slice from a json
file in golang? For example, the file data.json
looks like this:
["a","b","c","d"]
I have tried using ioutil.ReadFile
to do this, but this returns a string, not a slice. How can I read my slice?
NOTE: You can sub the brackets []
for braces {}
I have done this using structs, but I don't want the user to have to type in this complicated json stuff
For example,
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
)
func main() {
data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("data.json")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Print("data: ",string(data))
var slice []string
err = json.Unmarshal(data, &slice)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("slice: %q
",slice)
}
Output:
$ cat data.json
["a","b","c","d"]
$ go run data.go
data: ["a","b","c","d"]
slice: ["a" "b" "c" "d"]
$