Rust User Input

The prelude is the list of things that Rust automatically imports into every Rust program. It's kept as small as possible, and is focused on things, particularly traits, which are used in almost every single Rust program.
- Like we are able to print without importing anything.
- But user import is not included in prelude.
Crate in rust is synonymous to packages/libraries in other languages.
In rust we import modules from crates.
From these modules we can use specific functions in our code.
use std::io;. In this std is the crate and io is the module.

use std::io;

fn main() {
 let mut input = String::new();
 io::stdin().read_line(&mut input).expect("failed to read");
}

We are grabbing the stdin function from the io module.
We have to pass the input variable like this because if we only pass input it will just pass the value. So by using the & we passing the reference of input variable. But references are immutable so we include the keyword mut.

Last updated: 2022-05-17