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iOS

Please explain swift code.

Hello Everyone,

I am having trouble understanding this swift code. Basically, I don't know why we are writing the "[i]" in this piece of code: println(numbers[i])

Dont we just need to put "numbers" in the println()? Whats the point of the [i]?

Basically our task is to print the values in the "numbers" variable using a while method.

let numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

var i = 0

while i < numbers.count {

println(numbers[i])

i += 1 }

Code:

while i < numbers.count {

println(numbers[i])

i += 1 }

1 Answer

I'm not sure which challenge you're on, but I'll take a crack at explaining this. Basically the variable i is short for index. We create it for the purpose of keeping track of how many times we've gone around the loop. So I've reworked your code a little bit:

let numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

var i = 0

while i < numbers.count {
    println(numbers[i])
    i += 1
}

So what I did is create a loop. It says as long as i is less than the number of items in the "numbers" array, it will keep going around the loop. Then, inside the loop, we use the variable i for another purpose. We use that number to put iside of the square brackets, which will find us a certain index in the array. So the first time in the loop, i is 0 so it will go to numbers[0], then i gets incremented. Next time around the loop it's numbers[1], and then i gets incremented again. So what this code does is go through each number in the numbers array and print it out.

So the short version of the explanation is that they want us to print out each thing one by one.

Thanks for the answer! My understanding of this is so much better! Thank you so much.