How to print debug text in Swift
Swift version: 5.10
You can write text to the Xcode debug console using the print() function in Swift, like this:
print("Hello, world!")The print() function is actually variadic, so you can pass it more than one parameter and it will print them all, like this:
print(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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Available from iOS 7.0
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