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Mastering Swift 5.3

You're reading from   Mastering Swift 5.3 Upgrade your knowledge and become an expert in the latest version of the Swift programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562158
Length 418 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Taking the First Steps with Swift 2. Swift Documentation and Installing Swift FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators 4. Optional Types 5. Using Swift Collections 6. Control Flow 7. Functions 8. Classes, Structures, and Protocols 9. Protocols and Protocol Extensions 10. Protocol-Oriented Design 11. Generics 12. Error Handling and Availability 13. Custom Subscripting 14. Working with Closures 15. Advanced and Custom Operators 16. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift 17. Custom Value Types 18. Memory Management 19. Swift Formatting and Style Guide 20. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Loops

Loop statements enable us to continuously execute a block of code until a condition is met. They also enable us to iterate over elements of a collection. Let's look at how we would use the for-in loop to iterate over the elements of a collection.

The for-in loop

While Swift does not offer the standard C-based for loop, it does have the for-in loop. The standard C-based for loop was removed from the Swift language in Swift 3 because it was rarely used. You can read the full proposal to remove this loop on the Swift evolution site at https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0007-remove-c-style-for-loops.md. The for-in statement is used to execute a block of code for each item in a range, collection, or sequence.

Using the for-in loop

The for-in loop iterates over a collection of items or a range of numbers, and executes a block of code for each item in the collection or range. The format for the for-in statement is as follows:

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