Swift: The stride() Function

stride() Function in Swift:

The for–in loop gives you the flexibility to choose how to iterate through the sequence using the stride() function in Swift.

stride(from: x, to: y, by: z)

Note that we need to provide 3 comma separated values to use stride() function in a for–in loop:

for count in stride(from: 2, to: 8, by: 2) {
  print(count);
}

The output will be:

2
4
6

Arguments are the values we provide to functions. There is an argument label in each argument, such as from:, to:, or by:. We’ll go over functions in greater detail in a later lesson, but here’s a sneak peek:

• The first argument, from: 2, is the sequence’s starting number (2).
• The second argument, to: 8, is the sequence’s end (8). However, you’ll notice that we didn’t print out 8, indicating that this final number isn’t included.
• The third argument, by: 2, specifies how much to increment (or decrement, if a negative number is used) during each iteration. In the loop, the value of count changes as follows:

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