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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By: Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante

Overview of this book

Mozilla’s Rust is gaining much attention with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes to teach you how to leverage the Standard library to implement efficient solutions. The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the Standard library and collections. From here, the recipes will cover packages that support file/directory handling and interaction through parsing. You will learn about packages related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust. By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard library.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

How to do it...

  1. In the folder src/bin, create a file called iterator.rs.
  2. Add the following code, and run it with cargo run --bin iterator:
1   fn main() {
2 let names = vec!["Joe", "Miranda", "Alice"];
3 // Iterators can be accessed in many ways.
4 // Nearly all collections implement .iter() for this purpose
5 let mut iter = names.iter();
6 // A string itself is not iterable, but its characters are
7 let mut alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".chars();
8 // Ranges are also (limited) iterators
9 let nums = 0..10;
10 // You can even create infinite iterators!
11 let all_nums = 0..;
12
13 // As the name says, you can iterate over iterators
14 // This will consume the iterator
15 for num in nums {
16 print!("{} ", num);
17 }
18 // nums is no longer usable
19 println!();
20
21 // Get the index of the current item
22 for (index, letter) in "abc".chars().enumerate() {
23 println...