How to iterate through array of objects in Swift?

i have objects

var person1 = Person()
person1.name = "Joe"
person1.lastName = "Doe"
person1.age = 21

var person2 = Person()
person2.name = "Julia"
person2.lastName = "Ivanova"
person2.age = 22

var person3 = Person()
person3.name = "Irina"
person3.lastName = "Petrova"
person3.age = 25

var person9 = Person()
person9.name = "Vova"
person9.lastName = "Vovin"
person9.age = 32

var person10 = Person()
person10.name = "Masha"
person10.lastName = "Golovanova"
person10.age = 20

var person11 = Person()
person11.name = "Petra"
person11.lastName = "Andreeva"
person11.age = 27

and multi array

var array = [[person1, person2, person3], [person9, person10, person11]]

how can I iterate through array to get for example a person with name="Masha"

thanks in advance

# Swift 3:

forEach({ element in
// do what you need
})

Here is a pretty simple way to do what you need:

let result = array
.flatMap { $0 }
.first(where: { $0.name == "Masha" })

First you have to make your array flatted and then you can just get the first element from the array that satisfies the given predicate (in our case, where `name` is equal to `"Masha"`).

Here is technique which called 'Chaining'


*Playground*. **Swift 3.1**

import UIKit

class Person {
var name = ""
var lastName = ""
var age = 0
}

var person1 = Person()
person1.name = "Joe"
person1.lastName = "Doe"
person1.age = 21

var person2 = Person()
person2.name = "Julia"
person2.lastName = "Ivanova"
person2.age = 22

var person3 = Person()
person3.name = "Irina"
person3.lastName = "Petrova"
person3.age = 25

var person9 = Person()
person9.name = "Vova"
person9.lastName = "Vovin"
person9.age = 32

var person10 = Person()
person10.name = "Masha"
person10.lastName = "Golovanova"
person10.age = 20

var person11 = Person()
person11.name = "Petra"
person11.lastName = "Andreeva"
person11.age = 27

var array = [[person1, person2, person3], [person9, person10, person11]]

array
.flatMap{$0}
.forEach { (anyPerson:Person) in

if anyPerson.name == "Masha" {
//Do what you need
print(anyPerson.lastName)
}
}

Screen-shot from playground:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]


[1]:

I would try this:

var array:[[Person]] = [[person1, person2, person3], [person9, person10, person11]]
/*Casting it like this should keep from getting an error later
and/or having to recast the objects*/

for people in array {

/*This is going to look at each array in arrays,
and call each one 'people' within this loop*/

for person in people {

/*Same thing, this is going to look at each item in the people array
and call each one 'person' within this loop*/

if person.name == "Masha" {
return person
}
}
}

An interesting way of solving this would be to leverage the flatMap function of Swift.

var array = [[person1, person2, person3], [person9, person10, person11]]

let flatArray = array.flatMap { $0 }

flatArray now is `[person1, person2, person3, person9, person10, person11]` of type `Array<Person>`.

Then you can iterate on flatArray to find what you want :

for person in flatArray {
if person.name == "Masha" {
// Do something
}
}

You could even go further by using Swift 2.0 because it allows you to put a where clause in the for :

for person in flatArray where person.name == "Masha" {
// Do something
}

Iterating can be done as in @Rachel's answer. However there are different ways of doing the same thing, and not necessarily by iterating - and in some cases with just one line of code.

If you want to find, then the best way is using the array's `filter` method - but before that the multi dimensional array should be flattened, using `flatMap`.

So, to find the first element having a certain name, you can simply do:

let result: Person? = array.flatMap { $0 }.filter { $0.name == "Masha" }.first