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Arjun Amin
2,228 PointsHow does the computer know that the day is a string?
Can someone help me with this?
3 Answers
Fahad Alrahbi
1,080 PointsIf you mean how computer know the day and date , that is because the computer have internal db and this db updated by operating system website , so after install the operating system , your computer will connect to the time database and will update your time by your country and region .
if you mean how the computer present the day as string , this is different things because the day is a string we can not today is 6 we will say today is Wednesday .
Fahad Alrahbi
1,080 PointsSorry but what you mean by your question give example or explain your question .
Ilari Niitamo
6,458 PointsWith enums you're not working with strings at all. For example, Day.Monday is only a enumeration value. What the function in the video is comparing is two enums - the only thing that is a string is the printout, which is irrelevant. In Objective-C at least you could refer to enums by an index number, as well. So Day.Monday would be the same as 0, so your switch statement could say case 0...4: println("It's a weekday!") and case 5...6: println("It's the weekend!"). I don't yet know if this is possible with Swift, too.
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