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name = "Vecs and slices"
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difficulty = 2
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exercises = ["access.md"]
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---
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Let's now look at some functions on [`slice`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html)s and [`Vec`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html)s. Instead of manualy checking things we will follow the type system using `Option`s and `Result`s we saw earlier.
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> ## note
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> Slices (`[T]`) represent some memory space containing an arbitrary number of elements of type `T`. Since they don't have a size known at compilation time, we can only access them through pointers, commonly `&[T]` (references to slices).
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> ## deepening
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> `Vec<T>` can be seen as [owned](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-00-understanding-ownership.html) `[T]`, it means that every function working on a `&[T]` can work on a `&Vec<T>`.
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