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

[Zhao Xin]

It can't be done by ?? as stringFromDate(Date) returns String instead of
String?

Zhaoxin


On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Jeff Kelley via swift-users <
swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> 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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