Foundation Framework

Learn how to work with the data types defined in the Foundation framework. After reading this guide, you will know how to create and process strings, numbers, dates and measurements in your Swift code using the classes included in Foundation.


Table of Contents


FOUNDATION FRAMEWORK

Foundation

Standard Functions

Strings

Ranges

Numbers

Dates

Measurements


QUICK REFERENCE

Standard Functions

NSString

NSRange

Range

NSNumber

NumberFormatter

NSDecimalNumber

NSDecimalNumberHandler

Date

Calendar

DateComponents

DateInterval

DateFormatter

Locale

TimeZone

Measurement

Dimension

MeasurementFormatter


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