Hi, thanks, this works well for me. I think you mean .take() rather than 
.limit().


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:57:50AM -0700, Steven Fackler wrote:
> It may not fulfill your exact use case, but you can get this in a way:
> 
> let mut foo = bar.iter().peekable();
> {
>     let mut limit_foo = foo.by_ref().limit(50);
>     for baz in limit_foo {
>         ...
>     }
> }
> if foo.is_empty() {
>     ...
> }
> 
> Steven Fackler
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Evan G <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Instead of using a for statement, try looping over a custom iterator that
> > returns an Enum.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Andrew Poelstra <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >>
> >> Take is an iterator adaptor which cuts off the contained iterator after
> >> some number of elements, always returning None.
> >>
> >> I find that I need to detect whether I'm getting None from a Take
> >> iterator because I've read all of the elements I expected or because the
> >> underlying iterator ran dry unexpectedly. (Specifically, I'm parsing
> >> some data from the network and want to detect an early EOM.)
> >>
> >>
> >> This seems like it might be only me, so I'm posing this to the list: if
> >> there was a function Take::is_done(&self) -> bool, which returned whether
> >> or not the Take had returned as many elements as it could, would that be
> >> generally useful?
> >>
> >> I'm happy to submit a PR but want to check that this is appropriate for
> >> the standard library.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew Poelstra
> >> Mathematics Department, University of Texas at Austin
> >> Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
> >> Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew
> >>
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> >>  worries about, I would have finished high school."   --Edward Snowden
> >>
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