Struct std::io::Stdin

pub struct Stdin {
    // some fields omitted
}

A handle to the standard input stream of a process.

Each handle is a shared reference to a global buffer of input data to this process. A handle can be lock'd to gain full access to BufRead methods (e.g. .lines()). Reads to this handle are otherwise locked with respect to other reads.

This handle implements the Read trait, but beware that concurrent reads of Stdin must be executed with care.

Created by the io::stdin method.

Methods

impl Stdin

fn lock(&self) -> StdinLock

Locks this handle to the standard input stream, returning a readable guard.

The lock is released when the returned lock goes out of scope. The returned guard also implements the Read and BufRead traits for accessing the underlying data.

fn read_line(&self, buf: &mut String) -> Result<usize>

Locks this handle and reads a line of input into the specified buffer.

For detailed semantics of this method, see the documentation on BufRead::read_line.

Examples

fn main() { use std::io; let mut input = String::new(); match io::stdin().read_line(&mut input) { Ok(n) => { println!("{} bytes read", n); println!("{}", input); } Err(error) => println!("error: {}", error), } }

use std::io;

let mut input = String::new();
match io::stdin().read_line(&mut input) {
    Ok(n) => {
        println!("{} bytes read", n);
        println!("{}", input);
    }
    Err(error) => println!("error: {}", error),
}

You can run the example one of two ways:

• Pipe some text to it, e.g. printf foo | path/to/executable
• Give it text interactively by running the executable directly, in which case it will wait for the Enter key to be pressed before continuing

Trait Implementations

impl Read for Stdin

fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize>

Pull some bytes from this source into the specified buffer, returning how many bytes were read.

fn read_to_end(&mut self, buf: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<usize>

Read all bytes until EOF in this source, placing them into buf.

fn read_to_string(&mut self, buf: &mut String) -> Result<usize>

Read all bytes until EOF in this source, placing them into buf.

fn read_exact(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<()>

Read the exact number of bytes required to fill buf.

fn by_ref(&mut self) -> &mut Self where Self: Sized

Creates a "by reference" adaptor for this instance of Read.

fn bytes(self) -> Bytes<Self> where Self: Sized

Transforms this Read instance to an Iterator over its bytes.

fn chars(self) -> Chars<Self> where Self: Sized

Transforms this Read instance to an Iterator over chars.

fn chain<R: Read>(self, next: R) -> Chain<Self, R> where Self: Sized

Creates an adaptor which will chain this stream with another.

fn take(self, limit: u64) -> Take<Self> where Self: Sized

Creates an adaptor which will read at most limit bytes from it.