Path always returning false when trying to manually put a path with Rust

Question

I've been learning Rust, and I'm having a bit of a problem with this code.

let path = Path::new(&return_path); // return path is the user input

println!("{}", path.is_dir());

match path.is_dir() {
    true => print!("yep its true"),
    false => print!("nope its false")
}

This always returns false. I'm trying to make a system where the user can provide a absolute path for example /home/user/Downloads and it checks if that is a valid directory to insert a file.

Answer 1

Maybe double check &return_path? Here's a snippet to verify path works as expected:

use std::env;
use std::path::Path;

fn main() {
    let arg = env::args().nth(1).unwrap(); // Get first argument

    println!("Inspecting path {}", arg);
    let path = Path::new(&arg);
    println!("exists?: {}", path.exists());
    println!("is_file?: {}", path.is_file());
    println!("is_dir?: {}", path.is_dir());
    println!("is_symlink?: {}", path.is_symlink());
    if let Ok(full_path) = path.canonicalize() {
        println!("Canonical path: {:?}", full_path);
    } else {
        println!("Couldn't canonicalize path");
    }
}

And on my system:

> ./tmp /home/me/Downloads
Inspecting path /home/me/Downloads
exists?: true
is_file?: false
is_dir?: true
is_symlink?: false
Canonical path: "/home/me/Downloads"