How to read an integer input from the user in Rust 1.0?

Here are a few possibilities (Rust 1.7):

use std::io;

fn main() {
    let mut n = String::new();
    io::stdin()
        .read_line(&mut n)
        .expect("failed to read input.");
    let n: i32 = n.trim().parse().expect("invalid input");
    println!("{:?}", n);

    let mut n = String::new();
    io::stdin()
        .read_line(&mut n)
        .expect("failed to read input.");
    let n = n.trim().parse::<i32>().expect("invalid input");
    println!("{:?}", n);

    let mut n = String::new();
    io::stdin()
        .read_line(&mut n)
        .expect("failed to read input.");
    if let Ok(n) = n.trim().parse::<i32>() {
        println!("{:?}", n);
    }
}

These spare you the ceremony of pattern matching without depending on extra libraries.

Here is a version with all optional type annotations and error handling which may be useful for beginners like me:

use std::io;

fn main() {
    let mut input_text = String::new();
    io::stdin()
        .read_line(&mut input_text)
        .expect("failed to read from stdin");

    let trimmed = input_text.trim();
    match trimmed.parse::<u32>() {
        Ok(i) => println!("your integer input: {}", i),
        Err(..) => println!("this was not an integer: {}", trimmed),
    };
}

If you are looking for a way to read input for the purpose of competitive programming on websites like codeforces where you do not have access to text_io, this solution is for you.

I use the following macro to read different values from stdin:

#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules! read {
    ($out:ident as $type:ty) => {
        let mut inner = String::new();
        std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut inner).expect("A String");
        let $out = inner.trim().parse::<$type>().expect("Parsable");
    };
}

#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules! read_str {
    ($out:ident) => {
        let mut inner = String::new();
        std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut inner).expect("A String");
        let $out = inner.trim();
    };
}

#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules! read_vec {
    ($out:ident as $type:ty) => {
        let mut inner = String::new();
        std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut inner).unwrap();
        let $out = inner
            .trim()
            .split_whitespace()
            .map(|s| s.parse::<$type>().unwrap())
            .collect::<Vec<$type>>();
    };
}
  

Use it as follows:

fn main(){
   read!(x as u32);
   read!(y as f64);
   read!(z as char);
   println!("{} {} {}", x, y, z);

   read_vec!(v as u32); // Reads space separated integers and stops when newline is encountered.
   println!("{:?}", v);
}