Fix warning "C-style for Statement is deprecated" in Swift 3

Question

I have update Xcode to 7.3 and now I have a warning to the function that I use to create random strings.

I have tried to change the for statement with for (i in 0 ..< len){...} however, the warning became an error.

How can I remove the warning?

static func randomStringWithLength (len : Int) -> NSString {
  let letters : NSString = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"
  let randomString : NSMutableString = NSMutableString(capacity: len)

  for (var i=0; i < len; i += 1){ // warning
    let length = UInt32 (letters.length)
    let rand = arc4random_uniform(length)
    randomString.appendFormat("%C", letters.characterAtIndex(Int(rand)))
  }
  return randomString
}

Answer 1

C-style for loop has been deprecated in Swift 3. You can continue using it for a while, but they will certainly disappear in the future.

You can rewrite your loop to Swift's style:

for i in 0..<len {
    let length = UInt32 (letters.length)
    let rand = arc4random_uniform(length)
    randomString.appendFormat("%C", letters.characterAtIndex(Int(rand)))
}

Since you don't use i at all in the loop's body, you can replace it with:

for _ in 0..<len {
    // do stuffs
}