How to remove items from an array using filter()
Swift version: 5.6
The filter() method goes over all the items in an array (or indeed any kind of collection), and returns a new array containing items that pass a test you specify.
For example, given the following array:
let numbers = [1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13]We could use filter() to create an array of all the numbers that are greater than or equal to 5:
let over5 = numbers.filter { $0 >= 5 }Alternatively, you could use filter() to find odd numbers using modulus:
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