Read a file into a string in Go

Go

os.ReadFile replaced ioutil.ReadFile in 1.16 and is the one-liner for small files.

data, err := os.ReadFile("config.yaml")
if err != nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("reading config: %w", err)
}
fmt.Println(string(data))

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