How to cast numeric types?

Question

I am using Xcode playground to downcast in swift. Typecasting would normally allow me to convert a type to derived type using As operator in swift. But it gives me error while i try to typecast var a as Double,String. Thanks in advance!!

   var a = 1
   var b = a as Int
   var c = a as Double
   var d = a as String

Answer 1

You cannot cast it to each other because they do not relate. You can only cast types that are related like UILabel and UIView or [AnyObject] and [String]. Casting an Int to a Double would be like trying to cast a CGPoint to a CGSize

So to change for example an Int to a Double you have to make a new Double of that Int by doing Double(Int).

This applies to all numeric types like UInt Int64 Float CGFloat etc.