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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Collections What is a Dictionary?

Jeremy Turner
Jeremy Turner
1,567 Points

Assign the value for key "UK" to a constant named ukCurrency. Could someone provide the answer and explain it? Thanks!

1 let currencies = [ "US": "Dollar", "UK": "Pound", "JP": "Y ]

8 Answers

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

It is pretty easy to get the object associated with the key. Do:

Array["key"]

So in this case:

let currencies = ["US": "Dollar", "UK": "Pound", "JP": "Yen"]

let ukCurrency = currencies["UK"]
Jeremy Turner
Jeremy Turner
1,567 Points

Thanks Logan. It was super easy. I was embarrassed to even ask. lol

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

Don't be embarrassed :) Everyone, even myself, have to ask questions to learn. If you ever have any more questions, feel free to post them on the forums!

i had the same question from the challenge question. I got confused on the optional intro from the dic lecture. thnx a lot guys.

Jeremy Turner
Jeremy Turner
1,567 Points

Glad to know I'm not alone Lol

McKenna Rowe
McKenna Rowe
2,930 Points

I'm stuck on this quiz question. My code was exactly as you have above, but I keep getting an error "Your code could not be compiled. Please click on "Preview" to view the compiler errors.". the errors don't load?

McKenna Rowe
McKenna Rowe
2,930 Points

so I had to reload the lesson a few times before it let me pass. weird.

Desiree Welch
Desiree Welch
742 Points

I find myself thinking way too hard re: questions!

I thought we needed to remove the key first and then assign it a value. So just to be clear on the conceptualization, the reason why we don't do this is simply because the key/items in the array are not variables?

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

In this case, it is not removed because you may want to use the same value again later in the program.

Igors Devels
Igors Devels
1,272 Points

ough, thank you for the help. Easier than i thought.

Rodolfo Urbina
Rodolfo Urbina
3,705 Points

Had the same question. Thanks!

Me too! I was stuck for a minute lol. Thanks!