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

[Tim Vermeulen]

This doesn’t work because `dob` is optional and `stringFromDate` only takes a non-optional date.

> 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(mailto:swift-users at swift.org)>wrote:
> > Currently I do stuff like this:
> > 
> > letdobString:String
> > ifletdob = dob {
> > dobString =serverDateFormatter.stringFromDate(dob)
> > }
> > else{
> > dobString =""
> > }
> > 
> > Is there a better, more idiomatic, way to do this sort of thing?
> > 
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