【Swift 60秒】92 - Nil coalescing

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The nil coalescing operator unwraps an optional and returns the value inside if there is one. If there isn’t a value - if the optional was nil - then a default value is used instead. Either way, the result won’t be optional: it will either by the value from inside the optional or the default value used as a back up.

Here’s a function that accepts an integer as its only parameter and returns an optional string:

func username(for id: Int) -> {if id == 1 {return "Taylor Swift"} else {return nil}
}

If we call that with ID 15 we’ll get back nil because the user isn’t recognized, but with nil coalescing we can provide a default value of “Anonymous” like this:

let user = username(for: 15) ?? "Anonymous"

That will check the result that comes back from the username() function: if it’s a string then it will be unwrapped and placed into user, but if it has nil inside then “Anonymous” will be used instead.

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