summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/exercises/106_files.zig
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'exercises/106_files.zig')
-rw-r--r--exercises/106_files.zig33
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/exercises/106_files.zig b/exercises/106_files.zig
index b38bc72..ee8c6a9 100644
--- a/exercises/106_files.zig
+++ b/exercises/106_files.zig
@@ -12,23 +12,27 @@
// Fortunately, the Zig Standard Library provides a simple API for interacting
// with the file system, see the detail documentation here:
//
-// https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.fs
+// https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.Io
//
// In this exercise, we'll try to:
// - create a new directory,
// - open a file in the directory,
// - write to the file.
//
-// import std as always
+// Note: For simplicity, we write byte-by-byte without buffering.
+// In real applications, you'd typically use a buffer for better
+// performance. We'll learn about buffered I/O in a later exercise.
+//
const std = @import("std");
+const io = std.Options.debug_io;
pub fn main() !void {
// first we get the current working directory
- const cwd: std.fs.Dir = std.fs.cwd();
+ const cwd: std.Io.Dir = std.Io.Dir.cwd();
// then we'll try to make a new directory /output/
// to store our output files.
- cwd.makeDir("output") catch |e| switch (e) {
+ cwd.createDir(io, "output", .default_dir) catch |e| switch (e) {
// there is a chance you might want to run this
// program more than once and the path might already
// have been created, so we'll have to handle this error
@@ -44,21 +48,24 @@ pub fn main() !void {
// wait a minute...
// opening a directory might fail!
// what should we do here?
- var output_dir: std.fs.Dir = cwd.openDir("output", .{});
- defer output_dir.close();
+ var output_dir: std.Io.Dir = try cwd.openDir(io, "output", .{});
+ defer output_dir.close(io);
// we try to open the file `zigling.txt`,
// and propagate any error up
- const file: std.fs.File = try output_dir.createFile("zigling.txt", .{});
+ const file: std.Io.File = try output_dir.createFile(io, "zigling.txt", .{});
// it is a good habit to close a file after you are done with it
// so that other programs can read it and prevent data corruption
// but here we are not yet done writing to the file
// if only there were a keyword in Zig that
// allowed you to "defer" code execution to the end of the scope...
- file.close();
+ file.close(io);
+
+ // you are not allowed to move these lines above the file closing line!
+ var file_writer = file.writer(io, &.{});
+ const writer = &file_writer.interface;
- // you are not allowed to move these two lines above the file closing line!
- const byte_written = try file.write("It's zigling time!");
+ const byte_written = try writer.write("It's zigling time!");
std.debug.print("Successfully wrote {d} bytes.\n", .{byte_written});
}
// to check if you actually write to the file, you can either,
@@ -71,8 +78,8 @@ pub fn main() !void {
// More on Creating files
//
// notice in:
-// ... try output_dir.createFile("zigling.txt", .{});
-// ^^^
+// ... try output_dir.createFile(io, "zigling.txt", .{});
+// ^^^
// we passed this anonymous struct to the function call
//
// this is the struct `CreateFlag` with default fields
@@ -87,7 +94,7 @@ pub fn main() !void {
//
// Question:
// - what should you do if you want to also read the file after opening it?
-// - go to the documentation of the struct `std.fs.Dir` here:
+// - go to the documentation of the struct `std.Io.Dir` here:
// https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.fs.Dir
// - can you find a function for opening a file? how about deleting a file?
// - what kind of options can you use with those functions?