Rust Challenge: Matrix

Learning Rust Through Small Challenges

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In this mini Rust challenges, we will solve a problem using Rust. The goal of these challenges is to get comfortable reading and writing Rust code by solving various problems.

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Challenge

These challenges are based on exercises from Exercism. You can find the original challenge and more on their platform below.

Matrix in Rust on Exercism

Instructions

Given a string representing a matrix of numbers, return the rows and columns of that matrix.

So given a string with embedded newlines like:

9 8 7
5 3 2
6 6 7

representing this matrix:

1  2  3
  |---------
1 | 9  8  7
2 | 5  3  2
3 | 6  6  7

your code should be able to spit out:

• A list of the rows, reading each row left-to-right…