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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Operators Working With Operators: Part 2

Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points
Posted by Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points

What exactly went wrong here...

I am learning Unary operators, and it is asking me to use a NOT operator and compare this... I don't recall learning about a NOT operator and I can't find any clear documentation for it anywhere... can someone explain?

Challenge: http://prntscr.com/9hemog

What I put: http://prntscr.com/9hem6x

Thanks!

  • Ryan

1 Answer

Jayden Spring
Jayden Spring
8,625 Points

Hi Ryan,

The NOT operator is an exclamation mark (!). Easiest way to explain it is with a boolean example

var isSwiftGreat : Bool;

// Yeah it is so assign true!
isSwiftGreat = true;

if(isSwiftGreat){
  print("Yeah Swift Is Great");
}
else if(!isSwiftGreat)
{
  print("Nahh Its Not");
}

However I didn't really need to check if swift the variable isSwiftGreat is not true (else if block) as it would only fall into that block if it wasn't true.

Just reading the question you can do something like this:

var initialScore = 8;

let totalScore = ++initialScore;

if !(10 > totalScore){
  print("Winner!")
}

Where the !(...) is simply converting 10 is more than totalScore to either true or false. However they want you to do it a different way, just thought id show you a way without answering it and try to explain the NOT operator.

Jayden