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Swift-Basics

Swift is a new programming language for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS app development.

Constants and variables

These constants and variables associates a name with value of particular type.

Declaring constants and variables:

  • They should be declared before we use them.
  • To declare constant use "let" keyword.
  • To declare variable use "var" keyword.
let maximumNumberOfLoginAttempts = 10 
var currentLoginAttempt = 0 
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  • We can declare multiple constants or variable on a single line separated by commas
var x = 1,y = 2,z = 3
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Type Annotations

We can provide a type annotation when we declare a constant or variable to be clear about the type of variable the constant or variable can store.

var welcomeMessage:String = "Hello" 
//this can be read as welcomeMessage is ...of...type...String
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This means it can store any string values.

  • We can define multiple related variables of the same type on a single line separated by commas ,with a single type annotation after the final variable name.
var red,blue,green:Double
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Note: It is rare that we write type annotations in practice.

Naming constants and variables

  • Can contain any characters including unicode. Constants and variables cannot contain,
  • whitespace character
  • mathematical symbol (<,>,=...>)
  • arrows
  • private use unicode private values
  • lines and box-drawing characters
  • and cannot start with numbers

we can use reserved swift keywords as names using backticks

Printing constants and variables

print(_:seperator:terminator:)
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this print is an global function that prints one or more values to an appropriate output.

both separator and terminator has default value so they can omitted

  • seperator default value -> (" ")
  • terminator default value -> ("\n")

String interpolation

var name = "Ajith"
print("my name is \(name)")
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  • This is a way to construct a new string values from a mix of constants,variables,literals and expression. Each item that we insert into the string literals are wrapped in a pair of paranthesis , prefixed by backslash ()
  • we can use extended string delimiters to create string containing characters that would otherwise be treated as a string interpolation.
print(#"my name is \(name)"#)
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Comments

non-executable text in your code

//single line comment

/*multiple line
comment*/
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semicolon

swift doesn't require to write semicolon (;)
semicolons are required if we write multiple statements in single line

Integers

Integers are whole numbers with no fractional values such as 42,-23 they are either signed or un signed

swift provides signed or un signed integers in 8,16,32 and 64bit forms

floating point:

  • Double (64-bit fp) 15 decimals
  • float (32-bit fp) 6 decimals

Type safty and type inference

  • If part of your code requires a string,You cannot pass it an Int by mistake
  • If we did't mention the type the swift automatically takes the type as from the initial value.
let pi = 3.14 //double
let x = 4 // Int
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Type alias

Type alias defines a alternate name for an existing type.we define the type alias with the typealias keyword.

typealias audioSample = UInt16

var maxAudioSample = audioSample.max
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Tuples

Tuples group multiple values into single compound value.The value within a tuple can be any type and don't have to be same as each other.

let person = ("Ajith","madhan")
print(person.0 , person.1) //Ajith madhan

//named tuples

let p =(firstname:"Ajith" , lastname:"madhan")
print(p.firstname , p.lastname) //Ajith madhan

let (firstname,lastname) = person
print(firstname) // Ajith
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Optionals

We use optionals in place where a value may be absent.An optional represents two possibilities, either there is a value and you can unwrap the optional to access the value or there isn't any value at all.

let x = "123z"
let y:Int? = Int(x)
print(y) //nil
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We can set a optional to a variable to a valueless state by assigning it a special value nil.

var sourceCode:Int? = 404
sourceCode = nil
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note: we can't use nil with non-optional constant or variables

If we provide a constant value without providing a default value,the variable automatically sets to nil.

Forced unwrapping
Once we know that optionals does contain a value, we can access the underlying value by adding a exclamatory mark(!) to the end of the optional name.This "!" says that "I know that the value optional definitely has a value"
This is also known as forced unwrapping of the optional value.

If converteredNumber != nil {
   print("converter number is \(convertedNumber!)")
}
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class Xmas {
      func suprise() -> Int {
return Int.random(in:1...10)
   }
}
let present:Xmas? = Xmas()
if present != nil {
    print(present!.suprise())
}
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