File I/O

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Read;

fn main() {
    let filename = "src/main.rs";
    // Open the file in read-only mode.
    match File::open(filename) {
        // The file is open (no error).
        Ok(mut file) => {
            let mut content = String::new();

            // Read all the file content into a variable (ignoring the result of the operation).
            file.read_to_string(&mut content).unwrap();

            println!("{}", content);

            // The file is automatically closed when is goes out of scope.
        },
        // Error handling.
        Err(error) => {
            println!("Error opening file {}: {}", filename, error);
        },
    }
}

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader};

fn main() {
    let filename = "src/main.rs";
    // Open the file in read-only mode (ignoring errors).
    let file = File::open(filename).unwrap();
    let reader = BufReader::new(file);

    // Read the file line by line using the lines() iterator from std::io::BufRead.
    for (index, line) in reader.lines().enumerate() {
        let line = line.unwrap(); // Ignore errors.
        // Show the line and its number.
        println!("{}. {}", index + 1, line);
    }
}

use std::env;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;

fn main() {
    // Create a temporary file.
    let temp_directory = env::temp_dir();
    let temp_file = temp_directory.join("file");

    // Open a file in write-only (ignoring errors).
    // This creates the file if it does not exist (and empty the file if it exists).
    let mut file = File::create(temp_file).unwrap();

    // Write a &str in the file (ignoring the result).
    writeln!(&mut file, "Hello World!").unwrap();

    // Write a byte string.
    file.write(b"Bytes\n").unwrap();
}

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Read;

fn read_a_file() -> std::io::Result<Vec<u8>> {
    let mut file = try!(File::open("example.data"));

    let mut data = Vec::new();
    try!(file.read_to_end(&mut data));

    return Ok(data);
}