There isn't straightforward instruction on receiving a string as a variable in the std::io documentation, but I figured this should work:
use std::io;
let line = io::stdin().lock().lines().unwrap();
But I'm getting this error:
src\main.rs:28:14: 28:23 error: unresolved name `io::stdin`
src\main.rs:28 let line = io::stdin.lock().lines().unwrap();
^~~~~~~~~
Why?
I'm using a nightly Rust v1.0.
Here's the code you need to do what you are trying (no comments on if it is a good way to go about it:
use std::io::{self, BufRead};
fn main() {
let stdin = io::stdin();
let line = stdin.lock()
.lines()
.next()
.expect("there was no next line")
.expect("the line could not be read");
}
If you want more control over where the line is read to, you can use Stdin::read_line
. This accepts a &mut String
to append to. With this, you can ensure that the string has a large enough buffer, or append to an existing string:
use std::io::{self, BufRead};
fn main() {
let mut line = String::new();
let stdin = io::stdin();
stdin.lock().read_line(&mut line).expect("Could not read line");
println!("{}", line)
}