How do I concatenate strings in Swift?

Question

How to concatenate string in Swift?

In Objective-C we do like

NSString *string = @\"Swift\";
NSString *resultStr = [string stringByAppen         


        

Answer 1

Several words about performance

UI Testing Bundle on iPhone 7(real device) with iOS 14

var result = ""
for i in 0...count {
    
}

Count = 5_000

//Append
result.append(String(i))                         //0.007s 39.322kB

//Plus Equal
result += String(i)                              //0.006s 19.661kB

//Plus
result = result + String(i)                      //0.130s 36.045kB

//Interpolation
result = "\(result)\(i)"                         //0.164s 16.384kB

//NSString
result = NSString(format: "%@%i", result, i)     //0.354s 108.142kB

//NSMutableString
result.append(String(i))                         //0.008s 19.661kB

Disable next tests:

• Plus up to 100_000 ~10s
• interpolation up to 100_000 ~10s
• NSString up to 10_000 -> memory issues

Count = 1_000_000

//Append
result.append(String(i))                         //0.566s 5894.979kB

//Plus Equal
result += String(i)                              //0.570s 5894.979kB

//NSMutableString
result.append(String(i))                         //0.751s 5891.694kB

*Note about Convert Int to String

Source code

import XCTest

class StringTests: XCTestCase {

    let count = 1_000_000
    
    let metrics: [XCTMetric] = [
        XCTClockMetric(),
        XCTMemoryMetric()
    ]
    
    let measureOptions = XCTMeasureOptions.default

    
    override func setUp() {
        measureOptions.iterationCount = 5
    }
    
    func testAppend() {
        var result = ""
        measure(metrics: metrics, options: measureOptions) {
            for i in 0...count {
                result.append(String(i))
            }
        }

    }
    
    func testPlusEqual() {
        var result = ""
        measure(metrics: metrics, options: measureOptions) {
            for i in 0...count {
                result += String(i)
            }
        }
    }
    
    func testPlus() {
        var result = ""
        measure(metrics: metrics, options: measureOptions) {
            for i in 0...count {
                result = result + String(i)
            }
        }
    }
    
    func testInterpolation() {
        var result = ""
        measure(metrics: metrics, options: measureOptions) {
            for i in 0...count {
                result = "\(result)\(i)"
            }
        }
    }
    
    //Up to 10_000
    func testNSString() {
        var result: NSString =  ""
        measure(metrics: metrics, options: measureOptions) {
            for i in 0...count {
                result = NSString(format: "%@%i", result, i)
            }
        }
    }
    
    func testNSMutableString() {
        let result = NSMutableString()
        measure(metrics: metrics, options: measureOptions) {
            for i in 0...count {
                result.append(String(i))
            }
        }
    }

}