path: root/rust/alloc/slice.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT

//! A dynamically-sized view into a contiguous sequence, `[T]`.
//!
//! *[See also the slice primitive type](slice).*
//!
//! Slices are a view into a block of memory represented as a pointer and a
//! length.
//!
//! ```
//! // slicing a Vec
//! let vec = vec![1, 2, 3];
//! let int_slice = &vec[..];
//! // coercing an array to a slice
//! let str_slice: &[&str] = &["one", "two", "three"];
//! ```
//!
//! Slices are either mutable or shared. The shared slice type is `&[T]`,
//! while the mutable slice type is `&mut [T]`, where `T` represents the element
//! type. For example, you can mutate the block of memory that a mutable slice
//! points to:
//!
//! ```
//! let x = &mut [1, 2, 3];
//! x[1] = 7;
//! assert_eq!(x, &[1, 7, 3]);
//! ```
//!
//! Here are some of the things this module contains:
//!
//! ## Structs
//!
//! There are several structs that are useful for slices, such as [`Iter`], which
//! represents iteration over a slice.
//!
//! ## Trait Implementations
//!
//! There are several implementations of common traits for slices. Some examples
//! include:
//!
//! * [`Clone`]
//! * [`Eq`], [`Ord`] - for slices whose element type are [`Eq`] or [`Ord`].
//! * [`Hash`] - for slices whose element type is [`Hash`].
//!
//! ## Iteration
//!
//! The slices implement `IntoIterator`. The iterator yields references to the
//! slice elements.
//!
//! ```
//! let numbers = &[0, 1, 2];
//! for n in numbers {
//!     println!("{n} is a number!");
//! }
//! ```
//!
//! The mutable slice yields mutable references to the elements:
//!
//! ```
//! let mut scores = [7, 8, 9];
//! for score in &mut scores[..] {
//!     *score += 1;
//! }
//! ```
//!
//! This iterator yields mutable references to the slice's elements, so while
//! the element type of the slice is `i32`, the element type of the iterator is
//! `&mut i32`.
//!
//! * [`.iter`] and [`.iter_mut`] are the explicit methods to return the default
//!   iterators.
//! * Further methods that return iterators are [`.split`], [`.splitn`],
//!   [`.chunks`], [`.windows`] and more.
//!
//! [`Hash`]: core::hash::Hash
//! [`.iter`]: slice::iter
//! [`.iter_mut`]: slice::iter_mut
//! [`.split`]: slice::split
//! [`.splitn`]: slice::splitn
//! [`.chunks`]: slice::chunks
//! [`.windows`]: slice::windows
#![stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
// Many of the usings in this module are only used in the test configuration.
// It's cleaner to just turn off the unused_imports warning than to fix them.
#![cfg_attr(test, allow(unused_imports, dead_code))]

use core::borrow::{Borrow, BorrowMut};
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
use core::cmp::Ordering::{self, Less};
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
use core::mem;
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
use core::mem::size_of;
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
use core::ptr;

use crate::alloc::Allocator;
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
use crate::alloc::Global;
#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
use crate::borrow::ToOwned;
use crate::boxed::Box;
use crate::vec::Vec;

#[unstable(feature = "slice_range", issue = "76393")]
pub use core::slice::range;
#[unstable(feature = "array_chunks", issue = "74985")]
pub use core::slice::ArrayChunks;
#[unstable(feature = "array_chunks", issue = "74985")]
pub use core::slice::ArrayChunksMut;
#[unstable(feature = "array_windows", issue = "75027")]
pub use core::slice::ArrayWindows;
#[stable(feature = "inherent_ascii_escape", since = "1.60.0")]
pub use core::slice::EscapeAscii;
#[stable(feature = "slice_get_slice", since = "1.28.0")]
pub use core::slice::SliceIndex;
#[stable(feature = "from_ref", since = "1.28.0")]
pub use core::slice::{from_mut, from_ref};
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub use core::slice::{from_raw_parts, from_raw_parts_mut};
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub use core::slice::{Chunks, Windows};
#[stable(feature = "chunks_exact", since = "1.31.0")]
pub use core::slice::{ChunksExact, ChunksExactMut};
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub use core::slice::{ChunksMut, Split, SplitMut};
#[unstable(feature = "slice_group_by", issue = "80552")]
pub use core::slice::{GroupBy, GroupByMut};
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
pub use core::slice::{Iter, IterMut};
#[stable(feature = "rchunks", since = "1.31.0")]
pub use core::slice::{RChunks, RChunksExact, RChunksExactMut, RChunksMut};
#[stable(feature = "slice_rsplit", since = "1.27.0")]
pub use core::slice::{RSplit, RSplitMut