Enumeration Caseswift 6.0.3Swift

numeric

A digit that does not meet the requirements of the decimal numeric type or a non-digit numeric value.

case numeric

This numeric type includes fractions such as “⅕” (U+2155 VULGAR FRACTION ONE FIFTH), numerical CJK ideographs like “兆” (U+5146 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5146), and other scalars that are not decimal digits used positionally in the writing of base-10 numbers.

As of Unicode 6.3, any new scalars that represent numbers but do not meet the requirements of decimal will have numeric type numeric, and programs can treat digit and numeric equivalently.

Other cases

  • case decimal

    A digit that is commonly understood to form base-10 numbers.

  • case digit

    A digit that does not meet the requirements of the decimal numeric type.