<main><divclass="width-limiter"><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form"><span></span><divid="sidebar-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../winnow/all.html"title="show sidebar"></a></div><inputclass="search-input"name="search"aria-label="Run search in the documentation"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"><divid="help-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../help.html"title="help">?</a></div><divid="settings-menu"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../settings.html"title="settings"><imgwidth="22"height="22"alt="Change settings"src="../../static.files/wheel-7b819b6101059cd0.svg"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main-content"class="content"><divclass="main-heading"><h1>Function <ahref="../index.html">winnow</a>::<wbr><ahref="index.html">combinator</a>::<wbr><aclass="fn"href="#">alt</a><buttonid="copy-path"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="src"href="../../src/winnow/combinator/branch.rs.html#51-59">source</a> · <buttonid="toggle-all-docs"title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><preclass="rust item-decl"><code>pub fn alt<Input: <aclass="trait"href="../stream/trait.Stream.html"title="trait winnow::stream::Stream">Stream</a>, Output, Error, Alternatives>(
Error: <aclass="trait"href="../error/trait.ParserError.html"title="trait winnow::error::ParserError">ParserError</a><Input>,</div></code></pre><detailsclass="toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Pick the first successful parser</p>
<p>To stop on an error, rather than trying further cases, see
<p>For tight control over the error when no match is found, add a final case using <ahref="fn.fail.html"title="fn winnow::combinator::fail"><code>fail</code></a>.
Alternatively, with a [custom error type][crate::_topic::error], it is possible to track all
errors or return the error of the parser that went the farthest in the input data.</p>
<p>When the alternative cases have unique prefixes, <ahref="macro.dispatch.html"title="macro winnow::combinator::dispatch"><code>dispatch</code></a> can offer better performance.</p>