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Posted by Anuradha Nath
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Anuradha Nath
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,686 Points

how to compare operands of type Any and type String in swift

Hi there, I was trying to sort an array of dictionaries where dictionary is of type [String:Any]

now I if I am trying to do following: var x=array[index]["Key"]

If x == true{ //do some thing }

But this gives me error

error: binary operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'Any?' and 'String'

Please help me I am stuck :(

Thanks Anuradha.

1 Answer

Anuradha Nath
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Anuradha Nath
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,686 Points
Anuradha Nath
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Anuradha Nath
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,686 Points

Got it :) typecast the value of type "Any" to "Bool" as follows:

var x=array[index]["Key"] as? Bool

Its working. I can sort my array of Dictionary now.

Please let me know if I have done it correctly or is there any other way to do this.

Thanks, Anuradha.