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Kotlin Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Kotlin Quick Start Guide Core features to get you ready for developing applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344189
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Working with collections

The standard library in the kotlin.collections package offers numerous extension functions that extend the collections types. Most of them extend the base Iterable interface, so they can be used with any collection type. 

The library is too big to cover every function, so we’ll see here the most useful ones. We can group them based on their operation.

Filtering functions

These functions are used to remove or filter items from a collection.

Drop

Drop removes first n elements from the collection.

val numbers = listOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
val...
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