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Dictionaries

Written on November 12, 2022

A dictionary in Swift is a list of key-value pairs separated by colons and surrounded by square brackets such as [key: value]. Values returned from a dictionary are optional because the key may not exist in the dictionary.

// A dictionary literal

let d = ["one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3]

// An empty dictionary

var e: [String: Int] = [:]

// Get a value from a dictionary

var fruits = ["apples": 1, "oranges": 3]
print(fruits["oranges"])
// Prints an optional 3

// Add an item to a dictionary

fruits["berries": 8]
print(fruits)
// Prints a dictionary containing ["apples": 1, "oranges": 3, "berries": 8]

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