<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Well you’ve mentioned Swift 4 in your original post, therefore I provided a solution using Swift 4. It’s returning a view called `Substring`.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <div id="bloop_sign_1498869773688432896" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Adrian Zubarev<br>Sent with Airmail</div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">Am 1. Juli 2017 um 00:38:42, David Baraff (<a href="mailto:davidbaraff@gmail.com">davidbaraff@gmail.com</a>) schrieb:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div></div><div>
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I don’t see suffix() as a member function in any documentation, nor
does it complete in Xcode.</font></div>
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only in Swift 4?</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">If so, that’s a
definite improvement!</font></div>
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<p class="">This looks way better than the subscript in Python and
1000 times better than your example. It might be a good idea to
look up possible API first before writing such ugly long lines. I
mean they get the job done, but just why so complicated? :(</p>
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<pre class=""><span class=""><code class="">let longString = "1234567890"
print(longString.suffix(2)) // prints "90"
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<p class="airmail_on"><span class="">Am 30. Juni 2017 um 23:45:01,
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about about this. I sympathize. Unicode, it’s all very
complex.<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
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