Documentation Tests

Rust has built-in support for documentation tests:

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
/// Shortens a string to the given length.
///
/// ```
/// use playground::shorten_string;
/// assert_eq!(shorten_string("Hello World", 5), "Hello");
/// assert_eq!(shorten_string("Hello World", 20), "Hello World");
/// ```
pub fn shorten_string(s: &str, length: usize) -> &str {
    &s[..std::cmp::min(length, s.len())]
}
}
  • Code blocks in /// comments are automatically seen as Rust code.
  • The code will be compiled and executed as part of cargo test.
  • Test the above code on the Rust Playground.