For Loop in Apple Swift

Question

Apple\'s newly released language Swift has an example on the official documentation. Example is like this;

let interestingNumbers = [
    \"Prime\": [2, 3, 5, 7,         


        

Answer 1

Swift allows you to loop over a dictionary with tuple-syntax (key, value). So in every iteration of the for-loop Swift cares about reassigning the specified tuple-variables (kind and number in your case) to the actual dictionary-record.

To figure out which Key includes the highest number in your example you can extend your code as follows:

let interestingNumbers = [
    "Prime": [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13],
    "Fibonacci": [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8],
    "Square": [1, 4, 9, 16, 25],
]

var largest = 0
var largestKey = ""
for (kind, numbers) in interestingNumbers {
    for number in numbers {
        if number > largest {
            largest = number
            largestKey = kind
        }
    }
}
largest     // =25
largestKey  // ="Square"

Or if you want to practice the tuple-syntax try that (with the same result):

var largest = 0
var largestKey = ""
for (kind, numbers) in interestingNumbers {
    for number in numbers {
        if number > largest {
            (largestKey, largest) = (kind, number)
        }
    }
}
largest     // =25
largestKey  // ="Square"