CommonsWare Klassbook: drop() Operator

The drop() operator for Flow skips the first N emitted items, where N is the value that you pass to drop(). So, here, we skip the first four items, so all we print are the remaining six.

You can learn more about this in:

the documentation
Elements of Kotlin Coroutines

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import kotlinx.coroutines.*
import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.*
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fun main() {
  GlobalScope.launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
    flowOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
      .drop(4)
      .collect { println(it) }
  }
}