In the following example, the location function returns two string values.
package main //from w w w. j av a2 s.c om import "fmt" func location(city string) (string, string) { var region string var continent string switch city { case "Los Angeles", "LA", "Santa Monica" : region, continent = "California", "North America" case "New York", "NYC" : region, continent = "New York", "North America" default : region, continent = "Unknown", "Unknown" } return region, continent } func main() { region, continent := location("Santa Monica") fmt.Printf("lives in %s, %s", region, continent) }