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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
Book Image

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)

Traversing the filesystem

Up until now, we always provided our code with the static location of a certain file. Alas, the real world is seldom so predictable, and some digging is going to be necessary when dealing with data scattered throughout different folders.

walkdir helps us with this by abstracting away the intricacies and inconsistencies of operating systems' representation of the filesystem by unifying them under one common API, which we are going to learn about in this recipe.