Printing structure variables in console in Golang

A structure or struct in Golang is a user-defined type that allows to group/combine items of possibly different types into a single type. Any real-world entity which has some set of properties/fields can be represented as a struct. This concept is generally compared with the classes in object-oriented programming. It can be termed as a lightweight class that does not support inheritance but supports composition. There are two ways to print struct variables on the console as follows:

1. Using the Printf function with the following tags

%v the value in a default format
%+v the plus flag adds field names
%#v a Go-syntax representation of the value

Example:

// Golang program to show how to print
// the struct variables in console
package main

// importing package for printing
import (
    "fmt"
)

// taking a struct
type emp struct {
    name   string
    emp_id int
    salary int
}

func main() {

    // an instance of emp (in 'e')
    e := emp{"GFG", 134, 30000}

    // printing with variable name
    fmt.Printf("%+v", e)

    fmt.Println()

    // printing without variable name
    fmt.Printf("%v", e)
}

Output:

{name:GFG emp_id:134 salary:30000}
{GFG 134 30000}

2. Print using Marshal of package encoding/json.

Example:

// Golang program to show how to print
// the struct variables in console
package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
)

// taking a struct
type emp struct {
    Name   string
    Emp_id string
    Salary int
}

func main() {

    // an instance of emp (in 'e')
    var e = emp{
        Name:     "GFG",
        Emp_id:   "123",
        Salary:    78979854 ,
    }

    // Marshalling the structure
    // For now ignoring error
    // but you should handle
    // the error in above function
    jsonF, _ := json.Marshal(e)

    // typecasting byte array to string
    fmt.Println(string(jsonF))
}

Output:

{"Name":"GFG","Emp_id":"123","Salary":78979854}