Is there any built in way to "combine" two Options?
I don't believe there's a direct function equivalent to liftM2
, but you can combine Option::and_then
and Option::map
like this:
fn main() {
let a = Some(5);
let b = Some(10);
let f = |a, b| {
a + b
};
println!("{:?}", a.and_then(|a| b.map(|b| f(a, b))));
}
Output:
Some(15)
As of Rust 1.46.0, you can use Option::zip
:
fn map2<T, U, V, F: Fn(T, U) -> V>(f: F, a: Option<T>, b: Option<U>) -> Option<V> {
match a.zip(b) {
Some((x, y)) => Some(f(x, y)),
None => None,
}
}
This can be combined with Option::map
, as shown in other answers:
fn map2<T, U, V, F: Fn(T, U) -> V>(f: F, a: Option<T>, b: Option<U>) -> Option<V> {
a.zip(b).map(|(x, y)| f(x, y))
}
I don't know if you can get down to one line (Edit: oh the accepted answer gets it down to one line nicely), but you can avoid the nested match
by matching on a tuple:
let a = Some(5);
let b = Some(10);
let f = |a, b| {
a + b
};
let res = match (a, b) {
(Some(a), Some(b)) => Some(f(a, b)),
_ => None,
};
println!("{:?}", res);
// prints Some(15)