Swift Set to Array

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Fried Rice picture Fried Rice · Mar 14, 2015 · Viewed 109.3k times · Source

An NSSet can be converted to Array using set.allObjects() but there is no such method in the new Set (introduced with Swift 1.2). It can still be done by converting Swift Set to NSSet and use the allObjects() method but that is not optimal.

Answer

Martin R picture Martin R · Mar 14, 2015

You can create an array with all elements from a given Swift Set simply with

let array = Array(someSet)

This works because Set conforms to the SequenceType protocol and an Array can be initialized with a sequence. Example:

let mySet = Set(["a", "b", "a"])  // Set<String>
let myArray = Array(mySet)        // Array<String>
print(myArray) // [b, a]

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