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Tony Teixeira
14,823 PointsadvancedBy no longer available
Since advancedBy is no longer available in Swift3 is there a better way to advance than:
return commaSeperateString.substring(from: commaSeperateString.index(commaSeperateString.startIndex, offsetBy: 1))
it seems quite repetitive.
Keenan Turner
6,270 PointsTony Teixeira Yeah I got to this problem and saw that things have changed. And even though Jeff Ripke has given the correct answer I wanted to understand this a bit more.
After looking online I found this article that explains that Strings are now responsible for managing their indexes.
Article here--> http://www.swift-studies.com/blog/2016/6/17/swift-30-string-index-changes
Which means that commaSeparatedString.substring can handle the index move with the new syntax. Here are examples of how the new syntax has changed things:
myString.index(after:) // returns an index advanced by one
myString.index(before:) // returns an index reduced by one
myString.index(currentIndex:,offsetBy:) // returns an index moved offsetBy characters
I hope this helps!
-Keenan
Jeff Ripke
41,989 PointsJeff Ripke
41,989 PointsHere is what I came up with:
return commaSeparatedString.substring(from: commaSeparatedString.index(after: commaSeparatedString.startIndex))