You can use either the read! macro to read a single value and return it, or the scan! macro to read one or more values into variables. Both macros can also read from a file or from memory. The read! macro can take any type that implements Iterator<Item=u8> as an optional third argument, and the scan! macro's arguments can be prefixed with iter => where iter implements Iterator<Item=u8>.

Examples

scan! macro

use text_io::scan;

// reading from a string source
let i: i32;
scan!("<b>12</b>".bytes() => "<b>{}</b>", i);
assert_eq!(i, 12);

// reading multiple values from stdio
let a: i32;
let b: &mut u8 = &mut 5;
scan!("{}, {}", a, *b);

read! macro

use text_io::read;

// read until a whitespace and try to convert what was read into an i32
let i: i32 = read!();

// read until a whitespace (but not including it)
let word: String = read!(); // same as read!("{}")

// read until a newline (but not including it)
let line: String = read!("{}\n");

// expect the input "<b><i>" or panic
// read until the next "<" and return that.
// expect the input "/i></b>"
let stuff: String = read!("<b><i>{}</i></b>");

// reading from files
use std::io::Read;
let mut file = std::fs::File::open("tests/answer.txt").unwrap().bytes().map(|ch| ch.unwrap());
let val: i32 = read!("The answer is {}!!!11einself\n", file);

// reading from strings
let val: i32 = read!("Number: {}", "Number: 99".bytes());