Converting &str into String

[fringe onyx]

What is the better approach, to_owned or to_string?

please ping on reply, thanks in advance.

[pallid sierra]

for me: .to_owned()

[tall stratus]

these are all semantically different functions:

1. to_owned is for conversion of borrowed types to owned types where both the borrowed and owned type are different
2. to_string is for invocation of the Display implementation to be shown to the user
3. into is for infallible conversion of data from one type to another

[fringe onyx]

For context, I have a dependencies.txt file where each line is a dependency.

let dependencies = 
            fs::read_to_string(
                format!("{}/dependencies.txt", path)
            )?.split("\n").map(|it: &str| it.to_string()).collect();

this is how i parsed it

[tall stratus]

semantically, to_owned makes the most sense here as it is meant to somehow take ownership of the strings via clone