This article provides some code samples in Rust.

Command line interface

Command arguments

cargo run foo bar baz "This string is a sentence"

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use std::env;
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// cargo run hello world
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fn main() {
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    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
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    // Retrieve first argument
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    let input = args[1].clone();
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    // Print all arguments
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    println!("{:?}", args); // ["target/debug/executable", "foo", "bar", "baz", "This string is a sentence"]
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}

Standard input

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use std::io;
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fn main() {
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    // empty string
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    let mut input = String::new();
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    // Collecting user input
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    println!("Enter your name: ");
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    io::stdin()
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        .read_line(&mut input)
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        .expect("Failed to read line");
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    println!("Received name: {}", input);
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}
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