Just some examples of some of the built-in methods you can call on a swift array.
Let’s start with some data. A sentence that is split into an array of words.
let quote = "What I cannot create, I do not understand." let words = quote.split(separator: " ") // ["What", "I", "cannot", "create,", "I", "do", "not", "understand."]
forEach
Execute a closure once for each item in an array.
let wordLengths = words.forEach { word in
print(word)
}map
Create a new array based on an existing array.
let wordLengths = words.map { word in
return word.count
}
// [4, 1, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 11]filter
Create a new array that is a subset of the items from an existing array.
let largeWords = words.filter { word in
return word.count > 3
}
// ["What", "cannot", "create,", "understand."]sorted
Create a new array that is the sorted version of an existing array.
let largestToSmallest = words.sorted { word1, word2 in
return word1.count > word2.count
}
// ["understand.", "create,", "cannot", "What", "not", "do", "I", "I"]reduce
Create a new single value based on the values inside an array.
let totalLetters = words.reduce(0) { result, word in
return result + word.count
}
// 35
// Won't include any whitespace characters