I am fairly new to Swift and having a great deal of trouble finding a way to add a space as a thousand separator.
What I am hoping to achieve is taking the result
You want to use NSNumberFormatter:
NSNumberFormatter
let fmt = NSNumberFormatter() fmt.numberStyle = .DecimalStyle fmt.stringFromNumber(2358000) // with my locale, "2,358,000" fmt.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "fr_FR") fmt.stringFromNumber(2358000) // "2 358 000"