// ./src/primitives/array.md use std::mem; // This function borrows a slice fn analyze_slice(slice: &[i32]) { println!("first element of the slice: {}", slice[0]); println!("the slice has {} elements", slice.len()); } fn part0() { // Fixed-size array (type signature is superfluous) let xs: [i32; 5] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; // All elements can be initialized to the same value let ys: [i32; 500] = [0; 500]; // Indexing starts at 0 println!("first element of the array: {}", xs[0]); println!("second element of the array: {}", xs[1]); // `len` returns the count of elements in the array println!("number of elements in array: {}", xs.len()); // Arrays are stack allocated println!("array occupies {} bytes", mem::size_of_val(&xs)); // Arrays can be automatically borrowed as slices println!("borrow the whole array as a slice"); analyze_slice(&xs); // Slices can point to a section of an array // They are of the form [starting_index..ending_index] // starting_index is the first position in the slice // ending_index is one more than the last position in the slice println!("borrow a section of the array as a slice"); analyze_slice(&ys[1 .. 4]); // Example of empty slice `&[]` let empty_array: [u32; 0] = []; assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[]); assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[][..]); // same but more verbose // Arrays can be safely accessed using `.get`, which returns an // `Option`. This can be matched as shown below, or used with // `.expect()` if you would like the program to exit with a nice // message instead of happily continue. for i in 0..xs.len() + 1 { // OOPS, one element too far match xs.get(i) { Some(xval) => println!("{}: {}", i, xval), None => println!("Slow down! {} is too far!", i), } } // Out of bound indexing causes compile error //println!("{}", xs[5]); } pub fn main() { part0(); }