examples/rust-by-example-arrays-and-slices/src/main.rs
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());
//println!("First element of the slice: {}", slice[10]);
}
fn main() {
// Fixed-size array (type signature is superfluous).
let xs: [i32; 5] = [11, 21, 31, 41, 51];
// All elements can be initialized to the same value.
//let ys: [i8; 500] = [0; 500];
let ys = [0; 500];
//let ys = [0i8; 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());
println!("Number of elements in array: {}", ys.len());
// Arrays are stack allocated.
println!("Array occupies {} bytes", mem::size_of_val(&xs));
println!("Array occupies {} bytes", mem::size_of_val(&ys));
// 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(&xs[1 .. 4]);
analyze_slice(&ys[1 .. 20]);
analyze_slice(&ys[1 ..=20]);
// Example of empty slice `&[]`:
let empty_array: [u32; 0] = [];
assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[]);
//println!("hello");
assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[][..]); // Same but more verbose
let one_array: [u32; 1] = [2];
assert_eq!(&one_array, &[2]);
//println!("hello");
// Out of bound indexing on array with constant value causes compile time error.
// println!("{}", xs[7]);
// Out of bound indexing on slice causes runtime error.
//println!("{}", xs[..][7]);
// 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
let x = xs.get(0);
println!("{:?}", x);
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),
}
}
}