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489 PointsHaving trouble retrieving a value from a dictionary
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Please help!
// Enter your code below
var iceCream: [String:String] = ["CC": "Chocolate Chip", "AP": "Apple Pie", "PB": "Peanut Butter"]
iceCream.removeValue(forKey: "AP")
2 Answers
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 PointsThere's an important difference between retrieving and removing. Retrieve finds the element and returns it, but the array is not affected. Remove actually changes the array eliminating that element and returns the value.
It wants you to just retrieve, which you do with []
subscripting rather than the removeValue
method.
luke parker
489 PointsI see. Thanks!