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# subscript(_:)

Accesses the element at the specified position.

```
subscript(position: Self.Index) -> Self.Element { get }
```

## Parameters

`position`

The position of the element to access. `position`
must be a valid index of the collection that is not equal to the
`endIndex` property.

## Overview

The following example accesses an element of an array through its
subscript to print its value:

```
var streets = ["Adams", "Bryant", "Channing", "Douglas", "Evarts"]
print(streets[1])
// Prints "Bryant"
```

You can subscript a collection with any valid index other than the
collection’s end index. The end index refers to the position one past
the last element of a collection, so it doesn’t correspond with an
element.

> Complexity: O(1)

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