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iOS

Posted by Joseph Haddad
Joseph Haddad
16,246 Points

What is the best way to append Swift Dictionaries together?

I'm having a lot of trouble hard coding a library (by appending numerous dictionaries together) for my application. Would some one be able to tell me why this way of appending dictionaries is wrong? Also what's is the most efficient way to append dictionaries? 

var timeLibrary = [

[

    "Monday" : [
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19


    ],

    "Tuesday" : [
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19


    ],

    "Wednesday":[
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19

    ],

    "Thursday": [
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19

    ],

    "Friday" :  [
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19

    ],

    "Satuday" : [
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19


    ],

    "Sunday" :  [
        "happyHourStart": 16,
        "happyHourEnd": 19

    ]
],

    [

    "Monday" : [
        "happyHourStart": 15,
        "happyHourEnd": 20


    ],

    "Tuesday" : [
        "happyHourStart": 15,
        "happyHourEnd": 20,
        "entStart": 22,
        "entEnd": 2

    ],

    "Wednesday":[
        "happyHourStart": 15,
        "happyHourEnd": 20,
        "entStart": 22,
        "entEnd": 2

    ],

    "Thursday": [
        "happyHourStart": 15,
        "happyHourEnd": 20,
        "entStart": 22,
        "entEnd": 2

    ],

    "Friday" :  [
        "happyHourStart": 15,
        "happyHourEnd": 20,
        "entStart": 22,
        "entEnd": 2
    ],

    "Satuday" : [
        "entStart": 22,
        "entEnd": 2

    ],
    "Sunday" :  [
        "entStart": 22,
        "entEnd": 24
    ]
]

]

I've tried defining each library separately and then used the member function ".append(libraryName)" but the compiler tells me that my data type is anything but a NSDictionary so I can't use ".append()".