Golang encode []string to []byte

If you want to encode a []string into a []byte

func encodeString (data []string) []byte {
	buffer := &bytes.Buffer{}

	gob.NewEncoder(buffer).Encode(data)
	byteSlice := buffer.Bytes()
	fmt.Printf("%q\n", byteSlice)

	fmt.Println("---------------------------")
	return byteSlice
}