I am trying to write some toy code that stores the number of times it sees a word in a HashMap
. If the key exists, it increments a counter by one, if the key doesn't exist, it adds it with the value 1
. I instinctively want to do this with a pattern match, but I hit a borrow mutable more than once error:
fn read_file(name: &str) -> io::Result<HashMap<String, i32>> {
let b = BufReader::new(File::open(name)?);
let mut c = HashMap::new();
for line in b.lines() {
let line = line?;
for word in line.split(" ") {
match c.get_mut(word) {
Some(i) => {
*i += 1;
},
None => {
c.insert(word.to_string(), 1);
}
}
}
}
Ok(c)
}
The error I get is:
error[E0499]: cannot borrow `c` as mutable more than once at a time
--> <anon>:21:21
|
16 | match c.get_mut(word) {
| - first mutable borrow occurs here
...
21 | c.insert(word.to_string(), 1);
| ^ second mutable borrow occurs here
22 | }
23 | }
| - first borrow ends here
I understand why the compiler is grumpy: I've told it I'm going to mutate the value keyed on word
, but then the insert isn't on that value. However, the insert is on a None
, so I would have thought the compiler might have realized there was no chance of mutating c[s]
now.
I feel like this method should work, but I am missing a trick. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: I realize I can do this using
if c.contains_key(word) {
if let Some(i) = c.get_mut(s) {
*i += 1;
}
} else {
c.insert(word.to_string(), 1);
}
but this seems horribly ugly code vs the pattern match (particularly having to do the contains_key()
check as an if, and then essentially doing that check again using Some
.