Hi Sergo,

isn't that what the function readLine(stripNewline:) in the standard library 
does?
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Reference/Swift_StandardLibrary_Functions/index.html#//apple_ref/swift/func/s:FSs8readLineFT12stripNewlineSb_GSqSS_

Alex

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> Am 25.12.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Sergo Beruashvili via swift-evolution 
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> As you know lots of online coding challenge websites or University websites 
> require to read data from console ( standard input ).
> To read from console in Swift, you could use C "scanf" or 
> "NSFileHandle.fileHandleWithStandardInput()". but I found them very Time and 
> Code consuming. If you check the language popularity in these systems , most 
> of them have simple functions to read from console ( C++ cin/cout , Java 
> Scanner, Python raw_input ...etc ) . It is especially helpful when you have 
> limited time. And it is not only the coding challenge websites, since Swift 
> got open-source there will be lots of command line tools implemented in Swift.
> 
> I`d suggest to create very simple functionality to manage console 
> input/output , it would make Swift language popular for solving online coding 
> challenges and for command line tools.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sergo
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