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Swift program to remove the first item from an array

Here, we are going to learn how to remove the first item from an array in Swift programming language?
Submitted by Nidhi, on June 13, 2021

Problem Solution:

Here, we will create an array of integers with 5 elements. Then we will remove the first item from the array using the removeFirst() function.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to remove the first item from an array is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Swift program to remove the first item
// from an array

import Swift

var arr:[Int] = [10,20,30,40,50]

let removedItem = arr.removeFirst()

print("Array elements: ",arr)

print("Removed item: ",removedItem)

Output:

Array elements:  [20, 30, 40, 50]
Removed item:  10

...Program finished with exit code 0
Press ENTER to exit console.

Explanation:

In the above program, we imported a package Swift to use the print() function using the below statement,

import Swift;

Here, we created an integer array arr with 5 elements. Then we removed the first item from the array using the removeFirst() function and printed the updated array on the console screen.

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