pub fn once<T>(value: T) -> Once<T>ⓘNotable traits for Once<T>impl<T> Iterator for Once<T> type Item = T;
Creates an iterator that yields an element exactly once.
This is commonly used to adapt a single value into a chain of other kinds of iteration. Maybe you have an iterator that covers almost everything, but you need an extra special case. Maybe you have a function which works on iterators, but you only need to process one value.
Basic usage:
use std::iter; // one is the loneliest number let mut one = iter::once(1); assert_eq!(Some(1), one.next()); // just one, that's all we get assert_eq!(None, one.next());
Chaining together with another iterator. Let's say that we want to iterate over each file of the .foo directory, but also a configuration file, .foorc:
use std::iter;
use std::fs;
use std::path::PathBuf;
let dirs = fs::read_dir(".foo").unwrap();
// we need to convert from an iterator of DirEntry-s to an iterator of
// PathBufs, so we use map
let dirs = dirs.map(|file| file.unwrap().path());
// now, our iterator just for our config file
let config = iter::once(PathBuf::from(".foorc"));
// chain the two iterators together into one big iterator
let files = dirs.chain(config);
// this will give us all of the files in .foo as well as .foorc
for f in files {
println!("{:?}", f);
}
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