From d9e8d93d38b999af23767251d0a43886055d776e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trevor Gross <t.gross35@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:09:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add example for `array.get()`

---
 src/primitives/array.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/primitives/array.md b/src/primitives/array.md
index d0cd50e26a..841c71c14d 100644
--- a/src/primitives/array.md
+++ b/src/primitives/array.md
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ fn main() {
     assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[]);
     assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[][..]); // same but more verbose
 
+    // Arrays can be safely accessed using `.get`, which returns an
+    // `Option`. This can be matched as shown below, or used with
+    // `.expect()` if you would like the program to exit with a nice
+    // message instead of happily continue.
+    for i in 0..xs.len() + 1 { // OOPS, one element too far
+        match xs.get(i) {
+            Some(xval) => println!("{}: {}", i, xval),
+            None => println!("Slow down! {} is too far!", i),
+        }
+    }
+
     // Out of bound indexing causes compile error
     //println!("{}", xs[5]);
 }