Golang function to write a string to a file with overwrite

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/*
DESC: writes to new file
IN: output file: outFile, string of contents to write: contents
OUT: nill on success
*/
func write_file(outFile, contents string) error {
	
	err := ioutil.WriteFile(outFile, []byte(contents), 0644)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	return nil
}