Swift Dictionary forEach()

The forEach() method is used to iterate through each element of a dictionary.

Example

var information = ["Charlie": 54, "Harvey": 38, "Donna": 34]

// use forEach() to iterate through a dictionary information.forEach { info in print(info) }
// Output: // (key: "Harvey", value: 38) // (key: "Donna", value: 34) // (key: "Charlie", value: 54)

forEach() Syntax

The syntax of the forEach() method is:

dictionary.forEach{iterate}

Here, dictionary is an object of the Dictionary class.


forEach() Parameters

The forEach() method takes one parameter:

  • iterate - a closure body that takes an element of the dictionary as a parameter.

forEach() Return Value

  • The forEach() method doesn't return any value. It just iterates through the dictionary.

Example 1: Swift Dictionary forEach()

// create a dictionary with three elements
var information = ["Carlos": 1999, "Judy": 1992, "Nelson": 1987]

// use forEach() to iterate through a dictionary information.forEach { info in print(info) }

Output

(key: "Carlos", value: 1999)
(key: "Judy", value: 1992)
(key: "Nelson", value: 1987)

In the above example, we have created a dictionary named information and we have used the forEach() method to iterate through it. Notice the closure body,

{ info in 
  print(info)
}

Here, info represents each element of information. And each element is printed during each iteration.


Example 2: Iterate through all keys

// create a dictionary with three elements
var information = ["Carlos": 1999, "Judy": 1992, "Nelson": 1987]

// iterate through all the keys information.keys.forEach { info in print(info) }

Output

Carlos
Judy
Nelson

Here, we have used the keys property to iterate through all the keys of the information dictionary

information.keys.forEach {...}

Example 3: Iterate through all values

// create a dictionary with three elements
var information = ["Carlos": 1999, "Judy": 1992, "Nelson": 1987]

// iterate through all the values information.values.forEach { info in print(info) }

Output

1999
1987
1992

Here, we have used the values property to iterate through all the values of the information dictionary

information.values.forEach {...}
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