Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Accessing and Modifying Arrays

So, you have a bucket list? Great! Sadly, you do not have all that many ambitions in there yet. But you are an interesting person with a zeal for life, so let’s add some values to your bucketList. Update your list with another ambition.

Listing 9.5  Hot air balloon adventure

import Cocoa

var bucketList = ["Climb Mt. Everest"]
bucketList.append("Fly hot air balloon to Fiji")

You are using append(_:) to add a value to bucketList. The append(_:) function takes an argument of whatever type an array accepts and makes it a new element in the array.

Your playground should look like Figure 9.1.

Figure 9.1  Appending to your bucket list

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