What's an idiomatic way to print an iterator separated by spaces in Rust?

What's an idiomatic way to print all command line arguments in Rust?

fn main() {
    let mut args = std::env::args();

    if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
        print!("{}", arg);

        for arg in args {
            print!(" {}", arg);
        }
    }
}

Or better with Itertools' format or format_with:

use itertools::Itertools; // 0.8.0

fn main() {
    println!("{}", std::env::args().format(" "));
}

I just want a space separated String

fn args() -> String {
    let mut result = String::new();
    let mut args = std::env::args();

    if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
        result.push_str(&arg);

        for arg in args {
            result.push(' ');
            result.push_str(&arg);
        }
    }

    result
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", args());
}

Or

fn args() -> String {
    let mut result = std::env::args().fold(String::new(), |s, arg| s + &arg + " ");
    result.pop();
    result
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", args());
}

If you use Itertools, you can use the format / format_with examples above with the format! macro.

join is also useful:

use itertools::Itertools; // 0.8.0

fn args() -> String {
    std::env::args().join(" ")
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", args());
}

In other cases, you may want to use intersperse:

use itertools::Itertools; // 0.8.0

fn args() -> String {
    std::env::args().intersperse(" ".to_string()).collect()
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", args());
}

Note this isn't as efficient as other choices as a String is cloned for each iteration.

Here is an alternative for

I just want a space separated String of the argument variables obtained from std::env::args()

fn args_string() -> String {
    let mut out = String::new();
    let mut sep = "";
    for arg in std::env::args() {
        out.push_str(sep);
        out.push_str(&*arg);
        sep = " ";
    }
    out
}

pub fn main() {
    println!("{}", args_string());
}