Converting a custom type to string in Go

Question

In this bizarre example, someone has created a new type which is really just a string:

type CustomType string

const (
        Foobar CustomType = \"somestr         


        

Answer 1

answering this for anyone who comes here searching. You can convert the type to string on return using fmt.Sprintf

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func SomeFunction() string {
    return fmt.Sprintf("%v", Foobar)
}