Guessing Game
Let’s learn some Rust! For our first project, we’ll implement a classic beginner programming problem: the guessing game. Here’s how it works: Our program will generate a random integer between one and a hundred. It will then prompt us to enter a guess. Upon entering our guess, it will tell us if we’re too low or too high. Once we guess correctly, it will congratulate us. Sounds good?
Along the way, we’ll learn a little bit about Rust. The next chapter, ‘Syntax and Semantics’, will dive deeper into each part.
Set up
Let’s set up a new project. Go to your projects directory. Remember how we had
to create our directory structure and a Cargo.toml
for hello_world
? Cargo
has a command that does that for us. Let’s give it a shot:
$ cd ~/projects
$ cargo new guessing_game --bin
Created binary (application) `guessing_game` project
$ cd guessing_game
We pass the name of our project to cargo new
, and then the --bin
flag,
since we’re making a binary, rather than a library.
Check out the generated Cargo.toml
:
[package]
name = "guessing_game"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Your Name <you@example.com>"]
Cargo gets this information from your environment. If it’s not correct, go ahead and fix that.
Finally, Cargo generated a ‘Hello, world!’ for us. Check out src/main.rs
:
fn main() { println!("Hello, world!"); }
Let’s try compiling what Cargo gave us:
$ cargo build
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.53 secs
Excellent! Open up your src/main.rs
again. We’ll be writing all of
our code in this file.
Remember the run
command from last chapter? Try it out again here:
$ cargo run
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
Running `target/debug/guessing_game`
Hello, world!
Great! Our game is just the kind of project run
is good for: we need
to quickly test each iteration before moving on to the next one.
Processing a Guess
Let’s get to it! The first thing we need to do for our guessing game is
allow our player to input a guess. Put this in your src/main.rs
:
use std::io; fn main() { println!("Guess the number!"); println!("Please input your guess."); let mut guess = String::new(); io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess) .expect("Failed to read line"); println!("You guessed: {}", guess); }
There’s a lot here! Let’s go over it, bit by bit.
use std::io;
We’ll need to take user input, and then print the result as output. As such, we
need the io
library from the standard library. Rust only imports a few things
by default into every program, the ‘prelude’. If it’s not in the
prelude, you’ll have to use
it directly. There is also a second ‘prelude’, the
io
prelude, which serves a similar function: you import it, and it
imports a number of useful, io
-related things.
fn main() {
As you’ve seen before, the main()
function is the entry point into your
program. The fn
syntax declares a new function, the ()
s indicate that
there are no arguments, and {
starts the body of the function. Because
we didn’t include a return type, it’s assumed to be ()
, an empty
tuple.
println!("Guess the number!");
println!("Please input your guess.");
We previously learned that println!()
is a macro that
prints a string to the screen.
let mut guess = String::new();
Now we’re getting interesting! There’s a lot going on in this little line. The first thing to notice is that this is a let statement, which is used to create ‘variable bindings’. They take this form:
let foo = bar;
This will create a new binding named foo
, and bind it to the value bar
. In
many languages, this is called a ‘variable’, but Rust’s variable bindings have
a few tricks up their sleeves.
For example, they’re immutable by default. That’s why our example
uses mut
: it makes a binding mutable, rather than immutable. let
doesn’t
take a name on the left hand side of the assignment, it actually accepts a
‘pattern’. We’ll use patterns later. It’s easy enough
to use for now:
# #![allow(unused_variables)] #fn main() { let foo = 5; // `foo` is immutable. let mut bar = 5; // `bar` is mutable. #}
Oh, and //
will start a comment, until the end of the line. Rust ignores
everything in comments.
So now we know that let mut guess
will introduce a mutable binding named
guess
, but we have to look at the other side of the =
for what it’s
bound to: String::new()
.
String
is a string type, provided by the standard library. A
String
is a growable, UTF-8 encoded bit of text.
The ::new()
syntax uses ::
because this is an ‘associated function’ of
a particular type. That is to say, it’s associated with String
itself,
rather than a particular instance of a String
. Some languages call this a
‘static method’.
This function is named new()
, because it creates a new, empty String
.
You’ll find a new()
function on many types, as it’s a common name for making
a new value of some kind.
Let’s move forward:
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
That’s a lot more! Let’s go bit-by-bit. The first line has two parts. Here’s the first:
io::stdin()
Remember how we use
d std::io
on the first line of the program? We’re now
calling an associated function on it. If we didn’t use std::io
, we could
have written this line as std::io::stdin()
.
This particular function returns a handle to the standard input for your terminal. More specifically, a std::io::Stdin.
The next part will use this handle to get input from the user:
.read_line(&mut guess)
Here, we call the read_line
method on our handle.
Methods are like associated functions, but are only available on a
particular instance of a type, rather than the type itself. We’re also passing
one argument to read_line()
: &mut guess
.
Remember how we bound guess
above? We said it was mutable. However,
read_line
doesn’t take a String
as an argument: it takes a &mut String
.
Rust has a feature called ‘references’, which allows you to have
multiple references to one piece of data, which can reduce copying. References
are a complex feature, as one of Rust’s major selling points is how safe and
easy it is to use references. We don’t need to know a lot of those details to
finish our program right now, though. For now, all we need to know is that
like let
bindings, references are immutable by default. Hence, we need to
write &mut guess
, rather than &guess
.
Why does read_line()
take a mutable reference to a string? Its job is
to take what the user types into standard input, and place that into a
string. So it takes that string as an argument, and in order to add
the input, it needs to be mutable.
But we’re not quite done with this line of code, though. While it’s a single line of text, it’s only the first part of the single logical line of code:
.expect("Failed to read line");
When you call a method with the .foo()
syntax, you may introduce a newline
and other whitespace. This helps you split up long lines. We could have
done:
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess).expect("Failed to read line");
But that gets hard to read. So we’ve split it up, two lines for two method
calls. We already talked about read_line()
, but what about expect()
? Well,
we already mentioned that read_line()
puts what the user types into the &mut String
we pass it. But it also returns a value: in this case, an
io::Result
. Rust has a number of types named Result
in its
standard library: a generic Result
, and then specific versions for
sub-libraries, like io::Result
.
The purpose of these Result
types is to encode error handling information.
Values of the Result
type, like any type, have methods defined on them. In
this case, io::Result
has an expect()
method that takes a value
it’s called on, and if it isn’t a successful one, panic!
s with a
message you passed it. A panic!
like this will cause our program to crash,
displaying the message.
If we do not call expect()
, our program will compile, but
we’ll get a warning:
$ cargo build
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
warning: unused result which must be used, #[warn(unused_must_use)] on by default
--> src/main.rs:10:5
|
10 | io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess);
| ^
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.42 secs
Rust warns us that we haven’t used the Result
value. This warning comes from
a special annotation that io::Result
has. Rust is trying to tell you that
you haven’t handled a possible error. The right way to suppress the error is
to actually write error handling. Luckily, if we want to crash if there’s
a problem, we can use expect()
. If we can recover from the
error somehow, we’d do something else, but we’ll save that for a future
project.
There’s only one line of this first example left:
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
}
This prints out the string we saved our input in. The {}
s are a placeholder,
and so we pass it guess
as an argument. If we had multiple {}
s, we would
pass multiple arguments:
# #![allow(unused_variables)] #fn main() { let x = 5; let y = 10; println!("x and y: {} and {}", x, y); #}
Easy.
Anyway, that’s the tour. We can run what we have with cargo run
:
$ cargo run
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.44 secs
Running `target/debug/guessing_game`
Guess the number!
Please input your guess.
6
You guessed: 6
All right! Our first part is done: we can get input from the keyboard, and then print it back out.
Generating a secret number
Next, we need to generate a secret number. Rust does not yet include random
number functionality in its standard library. The Rust team does, however,
provide a rand
crate. A ‘crate’ is a package of Rust code.
We’ve been building a ‘binary crate’, which is an executable. rand
is a
‘library crate’, which contains code that’s intended to be used with other
programs.
Using external crates is where Cargo really shines. Before we can write
the code using rand
, we need to modify our Cargo.toml
. Open it up, and
add these few lines at the bottom:
[dependencies]
rand = "0.3.0"
The [dependencies]
section of Cargo.toml
is like the [package]
section:
everything that follows it is part of it, until the next section starts.
Cargo uses the dependencies section to know what dependencies on external
crates you have, and what versions you require. In this case, we’ve specified version 0.3.0
,
which Cargo understands to be any release that’s compatible with this specific version.
Cargo understands Semantic Versioning, which is a standard for writing version
numbers. A bare number like above is actually shorthand for ^0.3.0
,
meaning "anything compatible with 0.3.0".
If we wanted to use only 0.3.0
exactly, we could say rand = "=0.3.0"
(note the two equal signs).
We could also use a range of versions.
Cargo’s documentation contains more details.
Now, without changing any of our code, let’s build our project:
$ cargo build
Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
Downloading rand v0.3.14
Downloading libc v0.2.17
Compiling libc v0.2.17
Compiling rand v0.3.14
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 5.88 secs
(You may see different versions, of course.)
Lots of new output! Now that we have an external dependency, Cargo fetches the latest versions of everything from the registry, which is a copy of data from Crates.io. Crates.io is where people in the Rust ecosystem post their open source Rust projects for others to use.
After updating the registry, Cargo checks our [dependencies]
and downloads
any we don’t have yet. In this case, while we only said we wanted to depend on
rand
, we’ve also grabbed a copy of libc
. This is because rand
depends on
libc
to work. After downloading them, it compiles them, and then compiles
our project.
If we run cargo build
again, we’ll get different output:
$ cargo build
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
That’s right, nothing was done! Cargo knows that our project has been built, and that
all of its dependencies are built, and so there’s no reason to do all that
stuff. With nothing to do, it simply exits. If we open up src/main.rs
again,
make a trivial change, and then save it again, we’ll only see two lines:
$ cargo build
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.45 secs
So, we told Cargo we wanted any 0.3.x
version of rand
, and so it fetched the latest
version at the time this was written, v0.3.14
. But what happens when next
week, version v0.3.15
comes out, with an important bugfix? While getting
bugfixes is important, what if 0.3.15
contains a regression that breaks our
code?
The answer to this problem is the Cargo.lock
file you’ll now find in your
project directory. When you build your project for the first time, Cargo
figures out all of the versions that fit your criteria, and then writes them
to the Cargo.lock
file. When you build your project in the future, Cargo
will see that the Cargo.lock
file exists, and then use that specific version
rather than do all the work of figuring out versions again. This lets you
have a repeatable build automatically. In other words, we’ll stay at 0.3.14
until we explicitly upgrade, and so will anyone who we share our code with,
thanks to the lock file.
What about when we do want to use v0.3.15
? Cargo has another command,
update
, which says ‘ignore the lock, figure out all the latest versions that
fit what we’ve specified. If that works, write those versions out to the lock
file’. But, by default, Cargo will only look for versions larger than 0.3.0
and smaller than 0.4.0
. If we want to move to 0.4.x
, we’d have to update
the Cargo.toml
directly. When we do, the next time we cargo build
, Cargo
will update the index and re-evaluate our rand
requirements.
There’s a lot more to say about Cargo and its ecosystem, but for now, that’s all we need to know. Cargo makes it really easy to re-use libraries, and so Rustaceans tend to write smaller projects which are assembled out of a number of sub-packages.
Let’s get on to actually using rand
. Here’s our next step:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
}
The first thing we’ve done is change the first line. It now says
extern crate rand
. Because we declared rand
in our [dependencies]
, we
can use extern crate
to let Rust know we’ll be making use of it. This also
does the equivalent of a use rand;
as well, so we can make use of anything
in the rand
crate by prefixing it with rand::
.
Next, we added another use
line: use rand::Rng
. We’re going to use a
method in a moment, and it requires that Rng
be in scope to work. The basic
idea is this: methods are defined on something called ‘traits’, and for the
method to work, it needs the trait to be in scope. For more about the
details, read the traits section.
There are two other lines we added, in the middle:
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
We use the rand::thread_rng()
function to get a copy of the random number
generator, which is local to the particular thread of execution
we’re in. Because we use rand::Rng
’d above, it has a gen_range()
method
available. This method takes two arguments, and generates a number between
them. It’s inclusive on the lower bound, but exclusive on the upper bound,
so we need 1
and 101
to get a number ranging from one to a hundred.
The second line prints out the secret number. This is useful while we’re developing our program, so we can easily test it out. But we’ll be deleting it for the final version. It’s not much of a game if it prints out the answer when you start it up!
Try running our new program a few times:
$ cargo run
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.55 secs
Running `target/debug/guessing_game`
Guess the number!
The secret number is: 7
Please input your guess.
4
You guessed: 4
$ cargo run
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
Running `target/debug/guessing_game`
Guess the number!
The secret number is: 83
Please input your guess.
5
You guessed: 5
Great! Next up: comparing our guess to the secret number.
Comparing guesses
Now that we’ve got user input, let’s compare our guess to the secret number. Here’s our next step, though it doesn’t quite compile yet:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => println!("You win!"),
}
}
A few new bits here. The first is another use
. We bring a type called
std::cmp::Ordering
into scope. Then, five new lines at the bottom that use
it:
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => println!("You win!"),
}
The cmp()
method can be called on anything that can be compared, and it
takes a reference to the thing you want to compare it to. It returns the
Ordering
type we use
d earlier. We use a match
statement to
determine exactly what kind of Ordering
it is. Ordering
is an
enum
, short for ‘enumeration’, which looks like this:
# #![allow(unused_variables)] #fn main() { enum Foo { Bar, Baz, } #}
With this definition, anything of type Foo
can be either a
Foo::Bar
or a Foo::Baz
. We use the ::
to indicate the
namespace for a particular enum
variant.
The Ordering
enum
has three possible variants: Less
, Equal
,
and Greater
. The match
statement takes a value of a type, and lets you
create an ‘arm’ for each possible value. Since we have three types of
Ordering
, we have three arms:
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => println!("You win!"),
}
If it’s Less
, we print Too small!
, if it’s Greater
, Too big!
, and if
Equal
, You win!
. match
is really useful, and is used often in Rust.
I did mention that this won’t quite compile yet, though. Let’s try it:
$ cargo build
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> src/main.rs:23:21
|
23 | match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected struct `std::string::String`, found integral variable
|
= note: expected type `&std::string::String`
= note: found type `&{integer}`
error: aborting due to previous error
error: Could not compile `guessing_game`.
To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.
Whew! This is a big error. The core of it is that we have ‘mismatched types’.
Rust has a strong, static type system. However, it also has type inference.
When we wrote let guess = String::new()
, Rust was able to infer that guess
should be a String
, and so it doesn’t make us write out the type. And with
our secret_number
, there are a number of types which can have a value
between one and a hundred: i32
, a thirty-two-bit number, or u32
, an
unsigned thirty-two-bit number, or i64
, a sixty-four-bit number or others.
So far, that hasn’t mattered, and so Rust defaults to an i32
. However, here,
Rust doesn’t know how to compare the guess
and the secret_number
. They
need to be the same type. Ultimately, we want to convert the String
we
read as input into a real number type, for comparison. We can do that
with two more lines. Here’s our new program:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
let guess: u32 = guess.trim().parse()
.expect("Please type a number!");
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => println!("You win!"),
}
}
The new two lines:
let guess: u32 = guess.trim().parse()
.expect("Please type a number!");
Wait a minute, I thought we already had a guess
? We do, but Rust allows us
to ‘shadow’ the previous guess
with a new one. This is often used in this
exact situation, where guess
starts as a String
, but we want to convert it
to an u32
. Shadowing lets us re-use the guess
name, rather than forcing us
to come up with two unique names like guess_str
and guess
, or something
else.
We bind guess
to an expression that looks like something we wrote earlier:
guess.trim().parse()
Here, guess
refers to the old guess
, the one that was a String
with our
input in it. The trim()
method on String
s will eliminate any white space at
the beginning and end of our string. This is important, as we had to press the
‘return’ key to satisfy read_line()
. This means that if we type 5
and hit
return, guess
looks like this: 5\n
. The \n
represents ‘newline’, the
enter key. trim()
gets rid of this, leaving our string with only the 5
. The
parse()
method on strings parses a string into some kind of number.
Since it can parse a variety of numbers, we need to give Rust a hint as to the
exact type of number we want. Hence, let guess: u32
. The colon (:
) after
guess
tells Rust we’re going to annotate its type. u32
is an unsigned,
thirty-two bit integer. Rust has a number of built-in number types,
but we’ve chosen u32
. It’s a good default choice for a small positive number.
Just like read_line()
, our call to parse()
could cause an error. What if
our string contained A👍%
? There’d be no way to convert that to a number. As
such, we’ll do the same thing we did with read_line()
: use the expect()
method to crash if there’s an error.
Let’s try our program out!
$ cargo run
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.57 secs
Running `target/guessing_game`
Guess the number!
The secret number is: 58
Please input your guess.
76
You guessed: 76
Too big!
Nice! You can see I even added spaces before my guess, and it still figured out that I guessed 76. Run the program a few times, and verify that guessing the number works, as well as guessing a number too small.
Now we’ve got most of the game working, but we can only make one guess. Let’s change that by adding loops!
Looping
The loop
keyword gives us an infinite loop. Let’s add that in:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
loop {
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
let guess: u32 = guess.trim().parse()
.expect("Please type a number!");
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => println!("You win!"),
}
}
}
And try it out. But wait, didn’t we just add an infinite loop? Yup. Remember
our discussion about parse()
? If we give a non-number answer, we’ll panic!
and quit. Observe:
$ cargo run
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.58 secs
Running `target/guessing_game`
Guess the number!
The secret number is: 59
Please input your guess.
45
You guessed: 45
Too small!
Please input your guess.
60
You guessed: 60
Too big!
Please input your guess.
59
You guessed: 59
You win!
Please input your guess.
quit
thread 'main' panicked at 'Please type a number!'
Ha! quit
actually quits. As does any other non-number input. Well, this is
suboptimal to say the least. First, let’s actually quit when you win the game:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
loop {
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
let guess: u32 = guess.trim().parse()
.expect("Please type a number!");
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => {
println!("You win!");
break;
}
}
}
}
By adding the break
line after the You win!
, we’ll exit the loop when we
win. Exiting the loop also means exiting the program, since it’s the last
thing in main()
. We have only one more tweak to make: when someone inputs a
non-number, we don’t want to quit, we want to ignore it. We can do that
like this:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number);
loop {
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
let guess: u32 = match guess.trim().parse() {
Ok(num) => num,
Err(_) => continue,
};
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => {
println!("You win!");
break;
}
}
}
}
These are the lines that changed:
let guess: u32 = match guess.trim().parse() {
Ok(num) => num,
Err(_) => continue,
};
This is how you generally move from ‘crash on error’ to ‘actually handle the
error’, by switching from expect()
to a match
statement. A Result
is
returned by parse()
, this is an enum
like Ordering
, but in this case,
each variant has some data associated with it: Ok
is a success, and Err
is a
failure. Each contains more information: the successfully parsed integer, or an
error type. In this case, we match
on Ok(num)
, which sets the name num
to
the unwrapped Ok
value (the integer), and then we return it on the
right-hand side. In the Err
case, we don’t care what kind of error it is, so
we just use the catch all _
instead of a name. This catches everything that
isn't Ok
, and continue
lets us move to the next iteration of the loop; in
effect, this enables us to ignore all errors and continue with our program.
Now we should be good! Let’s try:
$ cargo run
Compiling guessing_game v0.1.0 (file:///home/you/projects/guessing_game)
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.57 secs
Running `target/guessing_game`
Guess the number!
The secret number is: 61
Please input your guess.
10
You guessed: 10
Too small!
Please input your guess.
99
You guessed: 99
Too big!
Please input your guess.
foo
Please input your guess.
61
You guessed: 61
You win!
Awesome! With one tiny last tweak, we have finished the guessing game. Can you think of what it is? That’s right, we don’t want to print out the secret number. It was good for testing, but it kind of ruins the game. Here’s our final source:
extern crate rand;
use std::io;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use rand::Rng;
fn main() {
println!("Guess the number!");
let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1, 101);
loop {
println!("Please input your guess.");
let mut guess = String::new();
io::stdin().read_line(&mut guess)
.expect("Failed to read line");
let guess: u32 = match guess.trim().parse() {
Ok(num) => num,
Err(_) => continue,
};
println!("You guessed: {}", guess);
match guess.cmp(&secret_number) {
Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"),
Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"),
Ordering::Equal => {
println!("You win!");
break;
}
}
}
}
Complete!
This project showed you a lot: let
, match
, methods, associated
functions, using external crates, and more.
At this point, you have successfully built the Guessing Game! Congratulations!