Rx Operators
Many of the core LINQ operators that were introduced in Chapter 2 have their equivalent in Rx. Let's examine a few of the most common: take, skip, distinct, using, and zip.
Take
The Take operator allows you to specify how many objects you want from the collection. A small example makes this clear,
var input = new[] {1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1}.ToObservable();
var output = input.Take(5).Select(x => x * 10);
output.Dump();
The Take operator limits the output of this Rx query to just the first five values. The following is the output:
10
20
30
40
50
Skip
We won't be surprised to learn that Skip allows you to skip over the first n items in the new collection. This can be particularly helpful when you want to skip over, for example, ...
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