<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">I’m sorry, but I don’t see suffix() as a member function in any documentation, nor does it complete in Xcode.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Is this perhaps only in Swift 4?</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">If so, that’s a definite improvement!</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 40.8px; text-indent: -40.8px" class=""><font face=".AppleSystemUIFont" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'; color: #000000" class="">From: Adrian Zubarev <<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com" class="">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 57.0px; text-indent: -57.0px" class=""><font face=".AppleSystemUIFont" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'; color: #000000" class="">Subject: Re: [swift-users] the pain of strings</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 38.1px; text-indent: -38.1px" class=""><font face=".AppleSystemUIFont" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'; color: #000000" class="">Date: June 30, 2017 at 3:13:42 PM PDT</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 23.6px; text-indent: -23.6px" class=""><font face=".AppleSystemUIFont" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'; color: #000000" class="">To: David Baraff <<a href="mailto:davidbaraff@gmail.com" class="">davidbaraff@gmail.com</a>></font></p>
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<pre class=""><code class="">let longString = "1234567890"
print(longString.suffix(2)) // prints "90"
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<p class="airmail_on">Am 30. Juni 2017 um 23:45:01, David Baraff
via swift-users (<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>)
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<div class=""><span class="">I know, I’ve read tons about about this. I sympathize.
Unicode, it’s all very complex.<br class="">
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But.<br class="">
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BUT.<br class="">
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Python:<br class="">
shortID = longerDeviceID[-2:] # give me the last two
characters<br class="">
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Swift:<br class="">
let shortID =
String(longerDeviceID.characters.dropFirst(longerDeviceID.characters.count
- 2))<br class="">
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I can’t even read the above without my eyes glazing over. As has
been pointed out, an API which demands this much verbosity is
crippling for many developers, to say the least.<br class="">
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With Swift 4, am I correct that it will be at least:<br class="">
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let shortID = String(longerDeviceID.dropFirst(longerDeviceID.count
- 2))<br class="">
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