Keeps first n values only. :package: :smiley_cat: :running: :vhs: :moon: :scroll: :newspaper: :blue_book:

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

This is part of package extra-array.

This is browserified, minified version of @extra-array/take. It is exported as global variable array_take. CDN: unpkg, jsDelivr.

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

const array = require("extra-array");

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

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

References

• Data.List.take: Haskell
• Array.prototype.slice: MDN web docs
• _.take: lodash
• Array.to: sugarjs