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Posted by nicolaswilhelm
nicolaswilhelm
6,824 Points

Int to String in Swift?

Here is my code: 

var score = 0

@IBOutlet weak var ourLabel: UILabel!
@IBAction func ifscoreButton(sender: UIButton) {
    score++

    ourLabel.text = score
}

The problem is I can't change the score value to a string. Any ideas on how to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated !

2 Answers

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

The fancy term for it is "String Interpolation", but all you really need to know is how to do it. You just make a String as usual by writing a pair of double quotes, but between those quotes, you write a backslash and a pair of parentheses. Between those parentheses, you write whatever you want converted to a String. In your case, it would look like this:

ourLabel.text = "\(score)"
nicolaswilhelm
nicolaswilhelm
6,824 Points

Thanks for the response! I did what you said and it worked perfectly!

Jason Lysinger
Jason Lysinger
8,106 Points
Jason Lysinger
Jason Lysinger
8,106 Points

You can just use toString(score) to convert an int to a string.