---
title: Publishers.Drop
framework: combine
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: combine/publishers/drop
---

# Publishers.Drop

A publisher that omits a specified number of elements before republishing later elements.

## Declaration

```swift
struct Drop<Upstream> where Upstream : Publisher
```

## Topics

### Creating a drop Publisher

- [init(upstream:count:)](combine/publishers/drop/init(upstream:count:).md)

### Declaring supporting types

- [Publishers.Drop.Output](combine/publishers/drop/output.md)
- [Publishers.Drop.Failure](combine/publishers/drop/failure.md)

### Inspecting publisher properties

- [upstream](combine/publishers/drop/upstream.md)
- [count](combine/publishers/drop/count.md)

### Comparing publishers

- [==(_:_:)](combine/publishers/drop/==(_:_:).md)

### Default Implementations

- [Equatable Implementations](combine/publishers/drop/equatable-implementations.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Publisher](combine/publisher.md)

## See Also

### Applying sequence operations to elements

- [Publishers.DropUntilOutput](combine/publishers/dropuntiloutput.md)
- [Publishers.DropWhile](combine/publishers/dropwhile.md)
- [Publishers.TryDropWhile](combine/publishers/trydropwhile.md)
- [Publishers.Concatenate](combine/publishers/concatenate.md)
- [Publishers.PrefixWhile](combine/publishers/prefixwhile.md)
- [Publishers.TryPrefixWhile](combine/publishers/tryprefixwhile.md)
- [Publishers.PrefixUntilOutput](combine/publishers/prefixuntiloutput.md)