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Destructing

Destructing

Learn how to use position-based destructuring in Kotlin to assign multiple variables to components of a single object and explore its advantages and pitfalls.

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Exploring position-based destructuring

Kotlin supports a feature called position-based destructuring, which lets us assign multiple variables to components of a single object. For that, we place our variable names in parentheses.

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data class Player(
   val id: Int,
   val name: String,
   val points: Int
)
fun main() {
   val player = Player(0, "Gecko", 9999)
   val (id, name, pts) = player
   println(id) // 0
   println(name) // Gecko
   println(pts) // 9999
}

Destructuring mechanism

This mechanism ...