Exercise rectangle functions
In an earlier chapter we had an exercise to ask the use for the length and the width of a rectangle and print the area and the circumference to the screen.
Simplify it by moving the code that reads the number from STDIN into a function that we call twice. Once for the width and one for the length.
examples/functions/rectangle-stdin/src/main.rs
use std::io; use std::io::Write; fn main() { let length = get_number("Length"); let width = get_number("Width"); println!( "Length: {} Width: {}, Area: {} Circumference: {}", length, width, length * width, 2.0 * (length + width) ); } fn get_number(name: &str) -> f32 { let mut number = String::new(); print!("{}: ", name); io::stdout().flush().expect("Oups"); io::stdin() .read_line(&mut number) .expect("Failed to get input"); let number: f32 = number.trim().parse().expect("Could not convert to i32"); number }