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iOS

Chirs Davies
Chirs Davies
6,379 Points
Posted by Chirs Davies
Chirs Davies
6,379 Points

help please

Using the println statement, print out the value of the language element from the result tuple.

func greeting(person: String) -> (greeting: String, language: String) { let language = "English" let greeting = "Hello (person)"

return (greeting, language)

}

var result = greeting("Tom")

i know its probably something really simple but i just can't seem to figure it out?

2 Answers

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

you can decompose the tuple using dot syntax like so: tupleName.tupleElementName

so since the tuple is named result and it has an element called language you would use result.language

func greeting(person: String) -> (greeting: String, language: String) {
    let language = "English"
    let greeting = "Hello \(person)"

    return (greeting, language)
}

var result = greeting("Tom")
println(result.language)

the swift eBook has a section that covers tuples here

Chirs Davies
Chirs Davies
6,379 Points
Chirs Davies
Chirs Davies
6,379 Points

agh cheers, i was putting a comma instead of a full stop

Siamak Pourhabib
Siamak Pourhabib
2,962 Points
Siamak Pourhabib
Siamak Pourhabib
2,962 Points

If you are looking for the value of language you should write:

println(result.greeting)