How does the n variable change? for n in names { if n == name { found = true } }

Question

The n is defined, but how does it relate to the index in the name array?

Answer 1 · 2015-01-31T07:09:12Z

January 31, 2015 7:09am

func searchNames (#name: String) -> (Bool,String) {
    let names = ["Amit","Andrew","Ben","Craig","Dave","Guil","Hampton","Jason","Joy","Kenneth","Nick","Pasan","Zac"]

    var found = (false,"\(name) is not a Treehouse Teacher")

    for n in names {
        if n == name {
            found = (true,"\(name) is a Treehouse Teacher)")
        }
    }

    return found
}

Are you talking about this for loop?

    for n in names {
        if n == name {
            found = (true,"\(name) is a Treehouse Teacher)")
        }
    }

It's quite simple actually, this for loop loops through each item in the names array, at first run of the loop, n becomes 1st item in the array "Amit", on the second run, n becomes "Andrew"... and so on.

And at each run of the loop, it check if n is equal to name that defined as function argument (#name: String), if yes, then set the found to be true.

Answer 2 · 2015-06-16T01:10:40Z

June 16, 2015 1:10am

I think I got confused on this one too. However I think that the problem is that for-next loops are usually numbers and not string variables. I had to think about this for a while. I was under the impression that n was a numerical value, i.e. names.count or something like that. I never thought that something like this could be done. Learning something every day :).

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How does the n variable change? for n in names { if n == name { found = true } }

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