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iOS Swift 2.0 Collections and Control Flow Dictionaries Modifying a Dictionary

Ashley Boucher
Ashley Boucher
407 Points
Posted by Ashley Boucher
Ashley Boucher
407 Points

On Inserting Key Value Pairs

Why does the code

airportCodes.updateValue("Dublin Airport", forKey: "DUB")

produce "nil" in the results area?

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

The results pane shows what every function returns. Dictionary's updateValue(forKey:) method returns an optional value of the last value for that key in the dictionary, like this:

let dict = ["Key": "Value"]

dict.updateValue("Lock", forKey: "Key")
//"Value" will show in results

In this case, there was no value for the key "DUB" in that dictionary (or it was nil), so it had nothing to return, and so it returned nil