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iOS Intermediate Swift 2 Extensions and Protocols Extending a Native Type

Kittipol Munkatitum
Kittipol Munkatitum
13,074 Points
Posted by Kittipol Munkatitum
Kittipol Munkatitum
13,074 Points

got stuck with challenge

Hi,I can not pass this challenge when I write my code and check my work, treehouse always told that have problem about communication and this is my code

extension String{


    func add(number: Int) -> Int  {
        if let unwrapped:Int = Int(self) ?? 0{
            return unwrapped + number
        }
    }

}

could you help me solve this challenge thanks

3 Answers

Jason Cornwall
Jason Cornwall
9,645 Points

You were definitely on the right track. This one took me a while to figure out. Since the string that we are trying to add a number to might or might not have a number inside of it, we aren't actually returning and Int but an Optional of type Int. We also have to remember to return nil if the string doesn't have an integer inside of it. This is how I did it.

extension String {
    func add(num: Int) -> Int? {
        if let value = Int(self) {
            return value + num
        } else {
            return nil
        }
    }
}

I hope that helps. Good luck!

Farhan Hussain
Farhan Hussain
13,928 Points

Can you explain your code? I did not understand the part "Int(self)". I'm also stuck on this problem. Thank you.

Jason Cornwall
Jason Cornwall
9,645 Points
Jason Cornwall
Jason Cornwall
9,645 Points

Sure Farhan Hussain . We are being asked to add an extension to the String type but return a value of type Int. It's impossible to do computations with 2 values of type Int and String. So the way I decided to do this was by converting the string that we're adding the method to into an integer. That is, if I have something like this:

"1"

I convert it into an integer by doing this:

Int("1") == 1

Once I have done that, I can now use it for calculations in my method and return an integer. The 

Int(self)

part just means that the conversion gets applied to whatever string we happen to be running the method on at the moment. I hope that cleared things up a bit.

Farhan Hussain
Farhan Hussain
13,928 Points

Thank you it helped a lot.

miikis
miikis
44,957 Points
miikis
miikis
44,957 Points

Hey guys,

Jason's answer works just fine but I thought I'd add that this is the perfect time to use guard because casting a String into an Int — via Int("someString") — returns an optional. So below is a more semantic way to do the deed. Feel free to ask for clarification, if you need it :)

 extension String {
    func add(val: Int) -> Int? {
        guard let this = Int(self) else {
            return nil
        }

        return this + val
    }
 }

"1".add(val: 2) // returns 3 as an Int
"two".add(val: 3) // returns nil