Generating the SHA hash of a string using golang

Question

Can someone show me a working example of how to generate a SHA hash of a string that I have, say myPassword := \"beautiful\" , using Go 1 ?

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Answer 1

h := sha1.New()
h.Write(content)
sha := h.Sum(nil)  // "sha" is uint8 type, encoded in base16

shaStr := hex.EncodeToString(sha)  // String representation

fmt.Printf("%x\n", sha)
fmt.Println(shaStr)