String is a group of order characters enclosed in double quotes. Swift contains inbuilt data type String to declare and store the collection of characters.
String in a swift is a collection of unicode values.
How to create a String in Swift
There are multiple ways to create a string in swift.
- Use String Literal
String can be created like a normal variable using var
or let
keywrod and initialized using string literal syntax. These also called string constant literals.
var name="John";
print (name)
- using String constructor
Swift provides string constrcutor that accepts string value.
var name1=String("Mark");
print (name1)
- using multiline string syntax multi line strings are created using strings that span in multiple lines enclosed in three double quotation marks.
import Foundation
var multiLineString="""
This is multi line string example
Line2
Line3
"""
print (multiLineString)