How do I concatenate two slices in Rust?

Question

I want to take the x first and last elements from a vector and concatenate them. I have the following code:

fn main() {
    let v = (0u64 .. 10).collect::

        

Answer 1

Just use .concat() on a slice of slices:

fn main() {
    let v = (0u64 .. 10).collect::>();
    let l = v.len();
    let first_and_last = [&v[..3], &v[l - 3..]].concat();
    println!("{:?}", first_and_last);
    // The output is `[0, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9]`
}

This creates a new vector, and it works with arbitrary number of slices.

(Playground link)