I am making a tic-tac-toe game. The code is not complete, but I am stuck here. I want to print array_display
to the console, but when I assign the string, an error pops-up.
use std::io;
fn main() {
let mut player1: String = String::new();
let mut player2: String = String::new();
let mut positions = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"];
let mut lets_play = true;
println!("Welcome to tic tac toe");
println!("Player 1 please select what symbol you want to be : (x or o)");
io::stdin().read_line(&mut player1);
player1 = player1.to_lowercase();
println!("{:?}", player1);
if player1.trim() == "x" {
player1 = String::from("x");
player2 = String::from("o");
println!("Player 1 is x");
} else if player1.trim() == "o" {
player1 = String::from("o");
player2 = String::from("x");
println!("Player 1 is o");
} else {
println!("Input is not valid");
lets_play = false;
}
if lets_play {
println!("Let's start the game :");
print_board(&mut positions);
} else {
println!("Please reset the game");
}
}
fn print_board(arr: &mut [&str]) {
let mut counter = 0;
let mut array_display = ["1", "2", "3"];
let mut array_position = 0;
let mut string_for_array = String::new();
for i in 0..arr.len() {
string_for_array.push_str(arr[i]);
counter += 1;
if counter == 3 {
println!(
"array_display[{}] value = {}",
array_position, string_for_array
);
array_display[array_position] = string_for_array.to_string();
println!("String to push {:?}", string_for_array);
string_for_array = String::from("");
println!("Array position {}", array_position);
array_position += 1;
counter = 0;
}
}
}
Error:
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> src/main.rs:52:45
|
52 | array_display[array_position] = string_for_array.to_string();
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| |
| expected `&str`, found struct `std::string::String`
| help: consider borrowing here: `&string_for_array.to_string()`
The current issue in your code is that string_for_array.to_string()
creates a new String
, but the array_display
array contains &str
references.
The suggestion the compiler gives here (replacing with &string_for_array.to_string()
) does not work, because the result of .to_string()
will be freed at the end of the line and you would have an invalid &str
reference.
So, the issue is: some variable needs to own that string. Since string_for_array
is modified later, it can't be used. The natural choice is array_display
(because that's where that string will live anyway). So, first modify this array to contain owned String
s instead of &str
references:
let mut array_display = ["1".to_owned(), "2".to_owned(), "3".to_owned()];
And then the rest of the code will compile.