How to access deeply nested dictionaries in Swift

Question

I have a pretty complex data structure in my app, which I need to manipulate. I am trying to keep track of how many types of bugs a player has in thier garden. There are te

Answer 1

The Swift 4 default: subscript for Dictionaries makes makes updating values in nested Dictionaries much more concise.

Get and Set a default value rather than dealing with optionals:

var dict = [String : [String : String]]()
dict["deep", default: [:]]["nested"] = "dictionary"

print(dict)
// ["deep": ["nested": "dictionary"]]

https://swift.org/blog/dictionary-and-set-improvements/