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19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions src/expressions/match-expr.md
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Expand Up @@ -120,6 +120,25 @@ let message = match x {
Range patterns only work on [`char`] and [numeric types]. A range pattern may
not be a sub-range of another range pattern inside the same `match`.

Slice patterns can match both arrays of fixed size and slices of dynamic size.
```rust
// Fixed size
let arr = [1, 2, 3];
match arr {
[1, _, _] => "starts with one",
[a, b, c] => "starts with something else",
}
```
```rust
// Dynamic size
let v = vec![1, 2, 3];
match v[..] {
[a, b] => { /* this arm will not apply because the length doesn't match */ }
[a, b, c] => { /* this arm will apply */ }
_ => { /* this wildcard is required, since we don't know length statically */ }
}
```

Finally, match patterns can accept *pattern guards* to further refine the
criteria for matching a case. Pattern guards appear after the pattern and
consist of a bool-typed expression following the `if` keyword. A pattern guard
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