Rust by Example: Match

Rust has support for pattern matching through the match statement. It is somewhat similar to the switch statement in other languages.
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fn main() {

Match statements are similar to switch statements in other languages. Match with a single pattern.

 
    let value = 1;
    match value {
        1 => println!("one"),

Match with multiple patterns.

 
        2 | 3 => println!("two or three"),

Match with a range.

 
        2..=5 => println!("two through five"),

Match with a guard. A guard is an additional condition that must be true for the pattern to match.

 
        x if x > 5 => println!("greater than five"),

Match with a binding. The @ operator is used to create a binding for the value that matched the pattern.

 
        x @ 12..=20 => println!("twelve through twenty: {}", x),

Match with a wildcard. The _ pattern matches anything.

 
        _ => println!("something else"),
    }
}

$ rustc match.rs
$ ./match
one
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