Swift Dictionary first

first Syntax

The syntax of the dictionary first property is:

dictionary.first 

Here, dictionary is an object of the Dictionary class.

first Return Values

The first property returns the first key/value present in the dictionary.

Note: The first property returns an optional value, so we need to unwrap it. There are different techniques to unwrap optionals. To learn more about optionals, visit Swift Optionals.

Example: Swift Dictionary first

Output

(key: "Alcaraz", value: 18)
(key: "Saby", value: 1994)

In the above example, we have created two dictionaries named nameAge and employees with 3 and 1 key/value pairs respectively.

Here, we have used the first property to return the first key/value pair from nameAge and employees respectively.