Move values out of a Vec in Rust

Rust interview exercise on Ownership & Borrowing, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example, or cold in Interview mode with the example hidden; the tests run the moment you do.

Write drain_evens(nums) that removes every even number from nums and returns the removed numbers, both in their original order. Ownership of the evens moves to the caller; the odds stay.

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