Overview

Project Title: Text File Processor Using Rust

Project Description: The name is pretty descriptive, but the project will read through a text file and extract some generic information and statistics from it as well as prompting the user for a word or character search.

Project Goals: Learn Rust basics. Be able to read and extract data from .txt file. Interact with user in terminal.

Instructions for Build and Use

Steps to build and/or run the software:

1. Download project from github
2. Run cargo run -- sample.txt in terminal

Instructions for using the software:

1. Read terminal prompts
2. Choose word or char, which ever you want to search for in the txt file

Development Environment

To recreate the development environment, you need the following software and/or libraries with the specified versions:

• Rust 1.79.0

Useful Websites to Learn More

I found these websites useful in developing this software:

• Rust Tutorial - An Introduction
• Rust Programming
• Using Cargo

Future Work

The following items I plan to fix, improve, and/or add to this project in the future:

• Add more searching or calculations from txt file
• Allow user to write to a new txt file