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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Solving algorithms with reduce


We can chain solve algorithms with reduce by following a functional approach. The following lines declare a new getSeparatedGamesNames method for our previously coded GameRepository class that solves an algorithm by calling the reduce method:

public func getSeparatedGamesNames(separator: String) -> String {
    let gamesNames = getGamesNames()
    return gamesNames.reduce("") {
        concatenatedGameNames, gameName in
        print(concatenatedGameNames)
        let separatorOrEmpty = (gameName == gamesNames.last) ? "" : separator
        return "\(concatenatedGameNames)\(gameName)\(separatorOrEmpty)"
    }
}

The getSeparatedGamesNames method receives a separator argument of the String type and returns a String value. The code calls the getGamesNames method and saves the result in the gamesNames reference constant. Then, the code calls the reduce method with an empty string as the initial value for an accumulated value. The code uses a trailing closure to...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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