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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5. Inside this book, you'll find the key features of Swift 5 easily explained with complete sets of examples. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this definitive guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the Swift language. Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition will give you an in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. It will guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects. Later, you'll see how to leverage the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code. You will also see how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types and how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Putting it all together

To reinforce what we have learned in this chapter, let's look at one more example. For this example, we will create a function that will test to see whether a string value contains a valid IPv4 address. An IPv4 address is the address assigned to a computer that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) to communicate. An IP address consists of four numeric values that range from 0-255, separated by a dot (period). The following is the code example of a valid IP address, that is, 10.0.1.250:

func isValidIP(ipAddr: String?) ->Bool { 
 
  guard let ipAddr = ipAddr else {  
    return false 
  } 
  let octets = ipAddr.split { $0 == "."}.map{String($0)}  
  guard octets.count == 4 else { 
    return false 
  } 
  for octet in octets { 
    guard validOctet(octet: octet) else {  
      return false 
    } 
  } 
  return true 
} 

Since the sole parameter...