src/libstd/from_str.rs

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//! The trait for types that can be created from strings

use option::Option;

/// A trait to abstract the idea of creating a new instance of a type from a
/// string.
pub trait FromStr {
    /// Parses a string `s` to return an optional value of this type. If the
    /// string is ill-formatted, the None is returned.
    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Option<Self>;
}

/// A utility function that just calls FromStr::from_str
pub fn from_str<A: FromStr>(s: &str) -> Option<A> {
    FromStr::from_str(s)
}