scanln

The inverse of println

Overview

scanln is a macro that reads a line from stdin, removes the trailing newline (if present), and leaves other whitespace intact. It expands to an expression that returns a String, so it can be assigned to a variable or used directly. scanln may take arguments like those to the print macro, which can be used to generate a prompt.

Examples

Simple prompt

let input = scanln!("> ");

This results in a prompt that looks like this (where _ represents where the user will start typing):

> _

No prompt

let input = scanln!();

Result:

_

Formatted prompt

let input = scanln!("{}", 0);

Result:

0_