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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Collections What is a Dictionary?

Maria Eugenia Sequeira
Maria Eugenia Sequeira
1,018 Points
Posted by Maria Eugenia Sequeira
Maria Eugenia Sequeira
1,018 Points

Stuck at Dictionaries

I am new at this and my english doesnt help neither. I dont know how do this and if someone could help me it would be great, thanks

dictionaries.swift 
let currencies = [ "US": "Dollar", "UK": "Pound", "JP": "Yen" ]
let ukCurrency = ["UK": "Pound"]

1 Answer

Marc Biggar
Marc Biggar
10,942 Points

hey try this

let ukCurrency = currencies["UK"]

Basically you are telling the program to access the 'UK' Key and assign its value 'pound' to the new variable.

Keep it up :)