How to iterate over every second number

Question

Reading the docs, I noticed a sentence saying: "Rust doesn't have a C style for loop.". So, I wonder, how can I make a loop equivalent to for(i = 0; i < 10; i += 2) { }?

The ways I can think of are something like:

for i in 0..10 {
    if i % 2 == 0 {
        //Do stuff
    }
}

Or even:

let i = 0;
loop {
    if i < 10 {
        //Do stuff
        i += 2;
    } else {
        break;
    }
}

But I'm not sure this is the best way, especially since it's really verbose. Is there a better way? I'm guessing it would be with iterators, but I'm not sure how I'd do that.

Answer 1

This is now implemented in std with the step_by function

for i in (0..10).step_by(2) {
    // Do stuff
}

Answer 2

There's std::iter::range_step right now, but it's marked as unstable with the message "likely to be replaced by range notation and adapters".

fn main() {
    for i in std::iter::range_step(0, 10, 2) {
        println!("{:?}", i);
    }
}

prints

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