Swift Tuple Type

Learn how to use the Swift tuple data type to store multiple values within a single entity.

Introducing the Swift tuple

The tuple is perhaps one of the simplest but, most powerful features of the Swift programming language. Quite simple, a tuple is, quite simply, a way to temporarily group together multiple values into a single entity. The items stored in a tuple can be of any type and there are no restrictions requiring that those values all be of the same type. A tuple could, for example, be constructed to contain an Int value, a Double value, and a String as follows:

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