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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Getting Started with Xcode A Swift Recap

Posted by Noah Pereles
Noah Pereles
442 Points

How to create an Array of type string and put multiple strings in it

please help

getting_started.swift 
let bestSmartphone = "iPhone"
var favoriteSportsArray =

2 Answers

Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points
Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points

To declare an array of type String:

var stringArray: [String]

To instantiate stringArray with an array literal upon declaration:

var stringArray: [String] = ["this", "is", "a", "string", "array"]

When applying this structure to the challenge, you replace stringArray with favoriteSports, and put the entries of favoriteSports between the brackets, with commas between each entry.

I hope this helps!

Marc Jones
Marc Jones
3,751 Points
Marc Jones
Marc Jones
3,751 Points

Great Answer from Anjali,

So you can see the complete picture of this task. Task number 3 asks you to add to the Array, so you can append the next value as below. 

let bestSmartphone = "iPhone"
var favoriteSports: [String] = ["football","basketball","tennis"]
favoriteSports.append("Volleyball")

Hope this helps, Marc