Unmarshal CSV record into struct in Go

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There is gocarina/gocsv which handles custom struct in the same way encoding/json does.
You can also write custom marshaller and unmarshaller for specific types.

Example:

type Client struct {
    Id      string `csv:"client_id"` // .csv column headers
    Name    string `csv:"client_name"`
    Age     string `csv:"client_age"`
}

func main() {
    in, err := os.Open("clients.csv")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer in.Close()

    clients := []*Client{}

    if err := gocsv.UnmarshalFile(in, &clients); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    for _, client := range clients {
        fmt.Println("Hello, ", client.Name)
    }
}

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