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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Optionals What is an Optional?

Ryan Anderson
Ryan Anderson
4,610 Points

Can someone please explain how to do this Challenge Task 2 of 2 correctly?

Not sure what I am doing wrong.

search.swift
func search(#name: String) -> String? {
    let names = ["Doc","Grumpy","Happy","Sleepy","Bashful","Sneezy","Dopey"]
    for n in names {
        if n == name {
            return n
        }
    }
    return nil
}

if let result = search {
println("Found")
}

search(name: "Doc")

1 Answer

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Ryan,

You'll pass in the name of "Doc" in the call to the search method that you have set to the result constant. This way, when search is called, it'll have the parameter and value of what to search for--and the result of the search will be assigned to our constant named 'result'.

func search(#name: String) -> String? {
    let names = ["Doc","Grumpy","Happy","Sleepy","Bashful","Sneezy","Dopey"]
    for n in names {
        if n == name {
            return n
        }
    }
    return nil
}

if let result = search(name: "Doc") {
   println("Found")
}

Hope this helps!