[swift-users] Cleaner way than if let initialization?

[Jeff Kelley]

That’s where I would use the ?? operator:

let dobString = serverDateFormatter.stringFromDate(dob) ?? ""


Jeff Kelley

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> On Aug 4, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Daniel Tartaglia via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Currently I do stuff like this:
> 
> let dobString: String
> if let dob = dob {
> 	dobString = serverDateFormatter.stringFromDate(dob)
> }
> else {
> 	dobString = ""
> }
> 
> Is there a better, more idiomatic, way to do this sort of thing?
> 
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