Well you’ve mentioned Swift 4 in your original post, therefore I provided a solution using Swift 4. It’s returning a view called `Substring`.
-- Adrian Zubarev Sent with Airmail Am 1. Juli 2017 um 00:38:42, David Baraff ([email protected]) schrieb: I’m sorry, but I don’t see suffix() as a member function in any documentation, nor does it complete in Xcode. Is this perhaps only in Swift 4? If so, that’s a definite improvement! Begin forwarded message: From: Adrian Zubarev <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [swift-users] the pain of strings Date: June 30, 2017 at 3:13:42 PM PDT To: David Baraff <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] This looks way better than the subscript in Python and 1000 times better than your example. It might be a good idea to look up possible API first before writing such ugly long lines. I mean they get the job done, but just why so complicated? :( -- Adrian Zubarev Sent with Airmail Am 1. Juli 2017 um 00:08:47, Adrian Zubarev ([email protected]) schrieb: let longString = "1234567890" print(longString.suffix(2)) // prints "90" -- Adrian Zubarev Sent with Airmail Am 30. Juni 2017 um 23:45:01, David Baraff via swift-users ([email protected]) schrieb: I know, I’ve read tons about about this. I sympathize. Unicode, it’s all very complex. But. BUT. Python: shortID = longerDeviceID[-2:] # give me the last two characters Swift: let shortID = String(longerDeviceID.characters.dropFirst(longerDeviceID.characters.count - 2)) I can’t even read the above without my eyes glazing over. As has been pointed out, an API which demands this much verbosity is crippling for many developers, to say the least. With Swift 4, am I correct that it will be at least: let shortID = String(longerDeviceID.dropFirst(longerDeviceID.count - 2)) _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
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