Slurp: read content of a text file into a string

People who programmed in Perl are probably familiar with what was called slurp mode that was later converted to a function called slurp. The whole idea was to make it easy to read the content of a text file into memory, to slurp it in.

In Rust there is a function called read_to_string that does this.

examples/slurp/src/main.rs

use std::fs::read_to_string;

fn main() {
    let filename = "data.txt";
    let content = read_to_string(filename).unwrap();
    println!("------");
    print!("{}", content);
    println!("------");
}

It is nice and easy to use, you just have to remember that this will read the whole file into memory which is not going to work well for huge files.