How to append elements into a dictionary in Swift?

I have a simple Dictionary which is defined like:

var dict : NSDictionary = [ 1 : "abc", 2 : "cde"]

Now I want to add an element into this dictionary: 3 : "efg"

How can I append 3 : "efg" into this existing dictionary?

Antonio

You're using NSDictionary. Unless you explicitly need it to be that type for some reason, I recommend using a Swift dictionary.

You can pass a Swift dictionary to any function expecting NSDictionary without any extra work, because Dictionary<> and NSDictionary seamlessly bridge to each other. The advantage of the native Swift way is that the dictionary uses generic types, so if you define it with Int as the key and String as the value, you cannot mistakenly use keys and values of different types. (The compiler checks the types on your behalf.)

Based on what I see in your code, your dictionary uses Int as the key and String as the value. To create an instance and add an item at a later time you can use this code:

var dict = [1: "abc", 2: "cde"] // dict is of type Dictionary<Int, String>
dict[3] = "efg"

If you later need to assign it to a variable of NSDictionary type, just do an explicit cast:

let nsDict = dict as! NSDictionary

And, as mentioned earlier, if you want to pass it to a function expecting NSDictionary, pass it as-is without any cast or conversion.

yashwanth77

you can add using the following way and change Dictionary to NSMutableDictionary

dict["key"] = "value"

I know this might be coming very late, but it may prove useful to someone. So for appending key value pairs to dictionaries in swift, you can use updateValue(value: , forKey: ) method as follows :

var dict = [ 1 : "abc", 2 : "cde"]
dict.updateValue("efg", forKey: 3)
print(dict)

SWIFT 3 - XCODE 8.1

var dictionary =  [Int:String]() 

dictionary.updateValue(value: "Hola", forKey: 1)
dictionary.updateValue(value: "Hello", forKey: 2)
dictionary.updateValue(value: "Aloha", forKey: 3)

So, your dictionary contains:

dictionary[1: Hola, 2: Hello, 3: Aloha]

Alex Gidan

If your dictionary is Int to String you can do simply:

dict[3] = "efg"

If you mean adding elements to the value of the dictionary a possible solution:

var dict = Dictionary<String, Array<Int>>()

dict["key"]! += [1]
dict["key"]!.append(1)
dict["key"]?.append(1)

Swift 3+

Example to assign new values to Dictionary. You need to declare it as NSMutableDictionary:

var myDictionary: NSMutableDictionary = [:]
let newValue = 1
myDictionary["newKey"] = newValue
print(myDictionary)

lojals

In Swift, if you are using NSDictionary, you can use setValue:

dict.setValue("value", forKey: "key")

Given two dictionaries as below:

var dic1 = ["a": 1, "c": 2]
var dic2 = ["e": 3, "f": 4]

Here is how you can add all the items from dic2 to dic1:

dic2.map {
   dic1[$0.0] = $0.1
}

Cheers A.

Varsha Gaikwad

Dict.updateValue updates value for existing key from dictionary or adds new new key-value pair if key does not exists.

Example-

var caseStatusParams: [String: AnyObject] = ["userId" : UserDefault.userID ]
caseStatusParams.updateValue("Hello" as AnyObject, forKey: "otherNotes")

Result-

▿  : 2 elements
    - key : "userId"
    - value : 866
▿  : 2 elements
    - key : "otherNotes"
    - value : "Hello"

var dict = ["name": "Samira", "surname": "Sami"]
// Add a new enter code herekey with a value
dict["email"] = "sample@email.com"
print(dict)

Shobhit C

Up till now the best way I have found to append data to a dictionary by using one of the higher order functions of Swift i.e. "reduce". Follow below code snippet:

newDictionary = oldDictionary.reduce(*newDictionary*) { r, e in var r = r; r[e.0] = e.1; return r }

@Dharmesh In your case, it will be,

newDictionary = dict.reduce([3 : "efg"]) { r, e in var r = r; r[e.0] = e.1; return r }

Please let me know if you find any issues in using above syntax.

Lord Anubis

As of Swift 5, the following code collection works.

 // main dict to start with
 var myDict : Dictionary = [ 1 : "abc", 2 : "cde"]

 // dict(s) to be added to main dict
 let myDictToMergeWith : Dictionary = [ 5 : "l m n"]
 let myDictUpdated : Dictionary = [ 5 : "lmn"]
 let myDictToBeMapped : Dictionary = [ 6 : "opq"]

 myDict[3]="fgh"
 myDict.updateValue("ijk", forKey: 4)

 myDict.merge(myDictToMergeWith){(current, _) in current}
 print(myDict)

 myDict.merge(myDictUpdated){(_, new) in new}
 print(myDict)

 myDictToBeMapped.map {
     myDict[$0.0] = $0.1
 }
 print(myDict)

Tung Tran

To add new elements just set:

listParrameters["your parrameter"] = value

Sonu Verma

if you want to modify or update NSDictionary then first of all typecast it as NSMutableDictionary

let newdictionary = NSDictionary as NSMutableDictionary

then simply use

 newdictionary.setValue(value: AnyObject?, forKey: String)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27313242/how-to-append-elements-into-a-dictionary-in-swift

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