Setting a button title from a multi-dimension array

Based on the compile error you are getting, I would assume that if you tried to press option and click on shuffledArray, probably, it would be of type [[Any]] (depends on how you are declaring it). If you know that the element should be a String, you could cast it as follows:

if let qLabelText = shuffledArray[0][1] as? String {
      qlabel.text = qLabelText
}

But

I would note that:

• if you are pretty sure that shuffledArray should be an array of strings array, then you should -somehow- declare it [[String]] instead, thus there is no need to cast the element as string.

• However, for such a case, creating your own custom Model for such a case (template) might be a better choice of doing it as a 2D array.

For instance:

struct QuestionModel {
    var number: String
    var content: String

    var answer1: String
    var answer2: String
    var answer3: String
    var answer4: String

    var correctAnswer: String
}

_{Definitely, the structure of declaring the model is based on your requirement and may not be necessary to clone it as is.}

You could declare your question as:

let question1 = QuestionModel(number: "3", content: "Who invented the telephone?", answer1: "Rogers", answer2: "Virgin Mobile", answer3: "Graham Bell", answer4: "Nikola Tesla", correctAnswer: "0")

Thus shuffledArray would be an array of QuestionModel ([QuestionModel]) instead of [[String]].

Now, you could write your newQ function as:

func newQ() {
    let queestion1 = shuffledArray[0]

    qlabel.text = question1.content
    button1.setTitle(question1.answer1, for: .normal)
    button2.setTitle(question1.answer2, for: .normal)
    button3.setTitle(question1.answer3, for: .normal)
    button4.setTitle(question1.answer4, for: .normal)
}

Following the above approach would be more expressive and easy to work with.