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

Edward McLean
Edward McLean
2,349 Points
Posted by Edward McLean
Edward McLean
2,349 Points

What's wrong with this code?

Simply can't crack this!

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

let ukCurrency = currencies.removeValueForKey("UK")
Edward McLean
Edward McLean
2,349 Points
Edward McLean
Edward McLean
2,349 Points

Just to add, The challenge is to "Assign the value for key "UK" to a constant named ukCurrency."

1 Answer

Edward McLean
Edward McLean
2,349 Points
Edward McLean
Edward McLean
2,349 Points

I cracked it! The correct code was:

let ukCurrency = currencies["UK"]

Lesson for me? Read the question very carefully. (I believe) my original code would have created a constant with the value "UK", but also REMOVED the key value pair from the dictionary. The latter part (removing from dictionary) was not requested in the question.

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,867 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,867 Points

thanks for the followup, and good job at solving the problem yourself.