Iterating Through a Dictionary in Swift

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Dictionaries in Swift (and other languages) are not ordered. When you iterate through the dictionary, there’s no guarantee that the order will match the initialization order. In this example, Swift processes the “Square” key before the others. You can see this by adding a print statement to the loop. 25 is the 5th element of Square so largest would be set 5 times for the 5 elements in Square and then would stay at 25.

let interestingNumbers = [
    "Prime": [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13],
    "Fibonacci": [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8],
    "Square": [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]
]
var largest = 0
for (kind, numbers) in interestingNumbers {
    println("kind: \(kind)")
    for number in numbers {
        if number > largest {
            largest = number
        }
    }
}
largest

This prints:

kind: Square
kind: Prime
kind: Fibonacci

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