diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/Cargo.toml b/assignments/IO-assignment/Cargo.toml
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+[package]
+name = "option-result-assignment"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Mirabellensaft <tanks@ferrous-systems.com>"]
+edition = "2018"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/result-option-assignment.adoc b/assignments/IO-assignment/result-option-assignment.adoc
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+= Exercise The Option and Result Type and URL parsing
+
+:icons: font
+:source-highlighter: pygments
+:pygments-style: borland
+
+:source-language: rust
+
+In this exercise, you will learn
+* how to handle errors using the `Result`-type.
+* how to use the `Option`-type.
+* how to read a file line by line.
+* how to count the number of lines in a file.
+
+
+Both types are similar in the way, that they can have two types of values, and
+depending on what those values are, the program continues in a different way.
+
+The Option Type can have the variant `Some(<some other type>)` or `None`.
+It is used, when you have to handle optional values, for example if you want to
+be able to leave a field of a struct empty, go assign the option type to it.
+If the field has a value, it is `Some(<value>)`, if it is empty, it is `None`.
+
+The variants of the Result type are `Ok()` and `Err(e)`. It is used to handle errors.
+If an operation was successful, `Ok()` is returned. `Ok()` can be empty or have a
+return value. `Err(e)` contains an error message that can be printed.
+
+# `match`
+
+Both types can be used with the `match` keyword. The received value is matched on patterns, each leads to the execution of a different expression.
+
+---
+match VALUE {
+    PATTERN => EXPRESSION,
+    PATTERN => EXPRESSION,
+    PATTERN => EXPRESSION,
+}
+---
+== Tasks
+
+* Find out, what type the variable f is. Either your IDE shows you, or you can assign a random type to the variable, and run the program.
+* Match the two possible patterns, `Ok(file)` and `Err(e)` to an an appropriate expression, for example: `println!("File opened")` and `println!("Error: {}", e)`
+* To use the content of the file, bind the `match` statement to a variable. Read the content of the file into a buffer and then into a `String`.
+* Print the entire content of the file.
+* Print the number of lines the file contains.
+* Print the content of the file line by line. The `lines()`- method returns the `Result`-Type, use it.
+* Use the `Option`- type to filter out the empty lines, and only print the the others.
+
+== Help (wip)
+
+
+Read
+3. If `match` is bound to a variable, both arms of the tree have to have the same type, except if one has a `continue` statement.
+4. Read
+5.
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step2.rs b/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step2.rs
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+use std::io::{Read, BufReader, BufRead, Lines};
+use std::fs::File;
+
+
+fn main() {
+
+    let f = File::open("src/lib/content.txt");
+
+    match f {
+        Ok(file) => println!("{}"),
+        Err(e) => panic!("Problem opening the file: {:?}", e),
+    };
+}
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step3.rs b/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step3.rs
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+use std::io::{Read, BufReader, BufRead, Lines};
+use std::fs::File;
+
+fn main() {
+
+    let f = File::open("src/lib/content.txt");
+
+    let file = match f {
+        Ok(file) => file,
+        Err(e) => panic!("Problem opening the file: {:?}", e),
+    };
+
+    let mut buf_reader = BufReader::new(file);
+    let mut content_string = String::new();
+    buf_reader.read_to_string(&mut content_string).unwrap();
+    println!("{}", content_string);
+}
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step4.rs b/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step4.rs
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+use std::io::{Read, BufReader, BufRead, Lines};
+use std::fs::File;
+
+fn main() {
+
+    let f = File::open("src/lib/content.txt");
+
+    let file = match f {
+        Ok(file) => file,
+        Err(e) => panic!("Problem opening the file: {:?}", e),
+    };
+
+    let mut buf_reader = BufReader::new(file).lines();
+
+    let mut number = 0;
+
+    for line in buf_reader {
+        number += 1;
+    }
+
+    println!("{}", number);
+}
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step5.rs b/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step5.rs
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+use std::io::{Read, BufReader, BufRead, Lines};
+use std::fs::File;
+
+fn main() {
+
+    let f = File::open("src/lib/content.txt");
+
+    let file = match f {
+        Ok(file) => file,
+        Err(e) => panic!("Problem opening the file: {:?}", e),
+    };
+
+    let mut buf_reader = BufReader::new(file).lines();
+
+    for line in buf_reader {
+
+        let line = match line {
+            Ok(content) => content,
+            Err(e) => panic!("Problem reading the line: {:?}", e),
+        };
+
+        println!("{}", line);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step6.rs b/assignments/IO-assignment/solution/Step6.rs
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+use std::io::{Read, BufReader, BufRead, Lines};
+use std::fs::File;
+
+fn is_line_empty(line: String) -> Option<String> {
+    if line.len() == 0 {
+        None
+    } else {
+        Some(line)
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() {
+
+    let f = File::open("src/lib/content.txt");
+
+    let file = match f {
+        Ok(file) => file,
+        Err(e) => panic!("Problem opening the file: {:?}", e),
+    };
+
+
+    let mut buf_reader = BufReader::new(file).lines();
+
+    for line in buf_reader {
+
+        let line = match line {
+            Ok(content) => content,
+            Err(e) => panic!("Problem opening the file: {:?}", e),
+        };
+
+        let line = is_line_empty(line);
+
+        match line {
+            Some(line) => println!("{}", line),
+            None => continue
+        };
+    }
+    println!("{}", line);
+}
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/src/lib/content.txt b/assignments/IO-assignment/src/lib/content.txt
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+This file contains a title and list of URLs and empty lines
+https://docs.rs/lyon_core/0.8.0/lyon_core/
+
+https://docs.rs/gdnative-core/0.7.0/gdnative_core/
+
+https://docs.rs/little-endian/1.0.0/little_endian/
+https://docs.rs/grin_keychain/3.0.0/grin_keychain/
diff --git a/assignments/IO-assignment/src/main.rs b/assignments/IO-assignment/src/main.rs
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+use std::fs::File;
+
+fn main() {
+
+    let f = File::open("src/lib/content.txt");
+
+    match f {
+        // substitute this placeholder for the two possible patterns from the result type
+        // PATTERN => EXPRESSION,
+        // PATTERN => EXPRESSION,
+    };
+}