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Why does Swift have string interpolation?
Updated for Xcode 15
When it comes time to showing information to your user – whether that’s messages being printed out, text on buttons, or whatever fits your app idea – you will usually rely heavily on strings.
Of course, we don’t just want static strings, because we want to show the user some sort of relevant data they can use. So, Swift gives us string interpolation as a way of injecting custom data into strings at runtime: it replaces one or more parts of a string with data provided by us.
For example:
var city = "Cardiff"
var message = "Welcome to \(city)!"Of course, in that trivial example we could have just written our city name directly into the string – “Welcome to Cardiff!” – but in real apps having this inserted dynamically is important because it lets us show real-world user data rather than things we typed ourselves.
Swift is capable of placing any kind of data inside string interpolation. The result might not always be useful, but for all of Swift’s basic types – strings, integers, Booleans, etc – the results are great.
Tip: String interpolation is extremely powerful in Swift. If you’re keen to see just what it can do, check out this more advanced blog post from me: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/178/super-powered-string-interpolation-in-swift-5-0
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