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iOS

Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson
2,518 Points
Posted by Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson
2,518 Points

Data modeling with structures challenge 2 of 2

Retrieve the language used for iOS development by using the relevant key and dictionary subscripting notation and store it in a variable named iosLanguage.

this is what i wrote i dont know whats wrong with it though

let languages = ["iOS": "Swift", "Android":"Java"]
var iosLanguage: String = ["iOS: Swift"]

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you need to use dictionary subscripting notation. dictionary subscripting looks like this

dictionaryName["key"]

and it will return the value stored for that key.

in this challenge we have an dictionary called languages with 2 key value pairs. the key for the first pair is "iOS" and the value is "Swift". this is the key value pair you need. we can get the value for the key "iOS" using 

languages["iOS"] // returns "Swift"

so to retrieve the language used for iOS and then store it in a variable you would use

let languages = ["iOS": "Swift", "Android":"Java"]
var iosLanguage = languages["iOS"] // variable now has "Swift" as its value