[−][src]Function async_std::fs::read_to_string
pub async fn read_to_string<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> Result<String>
Reads the entire contents of a file as a string.
This is a convenience function for reading entire files. It pre-allocates a string based on the file size when available, so it is typically faster than manually opening a file and reading from it.
If you want to read the contents as raw bytes, use read
instead.
This function is an async version of std::fs::read_to_string
.
Errors
An error will be returned in the following situations:
path
does not point to an existing file.- The current process lacks permissions to read the file.
- The contents of the file cannot be read as a UTF-8 string.
- Some other I/O error occurred.
Examples
use async_std::fs; let contents = fs::read_to_string("a.txt").await?;