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iOS Swift Functions and Optionals Optionals What is an Optional?

Posted by Abdullah Alsowaygh
Abdullah Alsowaygh
8,719 Points

Functionals and Optionals

I am trying to do the challenge where it asks me to assign the result to a variable preceded with if let. The error comes from the site which asks me if I have used println() again?

can someone please tell me what am I supposed to do here?

Thank you

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(name: "doc"){ 
println("Found")
}

2 Answers

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points
Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Abdullah,

You're very, very close. Just make sure to capitalize the string you're passing in to search (in this case, "Doc").

Abdullah Alsowaygh
Abdullah Alsowaygh
8,719 Points
Abdullah Alsowaygh
Abdullah Alsowaygh
8,719 Points

Aw that was only it. Thank you!