How to return first 5 objects of Array in Swift?

Question

In Swift, is there a clever way of using the higher order methods on Array to return the 5 first objects? The obj-c way of doing it was saving an index, and for-loop throug

Answer 1

Swift 4

To get the first N elements of a Swift array you can use prefix(_ maxLength: Int):

Array(largeArray.prefix(5))