take

Keeps first n values only. 🏃 📼 📦 🌔 📒

Alternatives: take, takeRight, takeWhile, takeWhileRight.
Similar: take, drop.

iterable.take(x, [n]);
// x: an iterable
// n: number of values (1)

const iterable = require('extra-iterable');

var x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
[...iterable.take(x, 2)];
// [ 1, 2 ]

[...iterable.take(x, 3)];
// [ 1, 2, 3 ]

references

• Data.List.take: Haskell
• Array.prototype.slice: MDN web docs