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#![allow(unused_variables)] // <1> Silences a warnings caused by `open()` and `close()` not making use of needing their argument

#[derive(Debug)] // <2> This enables `File` to work with `println!` and its `fmt!` sibling macros, used at the bottom of the code listing
struct File {
  name: String,
  data: Vec<u8>,
}

fn open(f: &mut File) -> bool { // <3> These two functions will remain inert for now
  true 
}

fn close(f: &mut File) -> bool { // <3>
  true
}

fn read(f: &File, save_to: &mut Vec<u8>) -> usize { // <4> Return the "number of bytes read"
  let mut tmp = f.data.clone(); // <5> Make a copy of the data here, as `save_to.append()` will shrink the input vec
  let read_length = tmp.len();
  save_to.reserve(read_length); // <6> Not strictly necessary, but useful to know about
  save_to.append(&mut tmp); // <7> Allocate sufficient data in the `save_to` buffer to hold the contents of `f`
  read_length
}

fn main() {
  let mut f2 = File { 
    name: String::from("2.txt"),
    data: vec![114, 117, 115, 116, 33],
  };

  let mut buffer: Vec<u8> = vec![];

  open(&mut f2);                          // <8> Do the hard work of interacting the the file.
  let f2_length = read(&f2, &mut buffer); // <8>
  close(&mut f2);                         // <8>
  
  let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&buffer); // <9> Convert `Vec<u8>` to `String`. Any bytes that are not valid UTF-8 are replaced with �

  println!("{:?}", f2);
  println!("{} is {} bytes long", &f2.name, f2_length);
  println!("{}", text) // <10>  View [114, 117, 115, 116, 33] as an actual word
}