【Swift 60秒】14 - Dictionary default values

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If you try to read a value from a dictionary using a key that doesn’t exist, Swift will send you back nil - nothing at all. While this might be what you want, there’s an alternative: we can provide the dictionary with a default value to use if we request a missing key.

To demonstrate this, let’s create a dictionary of favorite ice creams for two people:

let favoriteIceCream = [
	"Paul": "Chocolate",
	"Sophie": "Vanilla"
]

We can read Paul’s favorite ice cream like this:

favoriteIceCream["Paul"]

But if we tried reading the favorite ice cream for Charlotte, we’d get back nil, meaning that Swift doesn’t have a value for that key:

favoriteIceCream["Charlotte"]

We can fix this by giving the dictionary a default value of “Unknown”, so that when no ice cream is found for Charlotte we get back "Unknown rather than nil:

favoriteIceCream["Charlotte", default: "Unknown"]

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