Pattern Matching

Practice pattern matching with integers, Option, and Result. Also, learn pattern matching with mixed data enums, expanding your ability to handle complex data structures.

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Rust has an extremely powerful pattern matching system that we can invoke using the match statement. The match statement allows us to match patterns against a series of patterns and then execute based on the matched pattern. Patterns can take up the form of numbers, string literals, enums, and a lot more.

Syntax

Let's take a look at the match statement's syntax first:

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