The search function below returns a name if it is found in the array and an empty string if it is not found. Modify the

Question

please help! i don't k
ow what to do!
```search.swift
func search(#name: String) -> String? {
search ""
    let names = ["Doc","Grumpy","Happy","Sleepy","Bashful","Sneezy","Dopey"]
    for n in names {
        if n == name {
            return n
        }
    }
    return (names)
}
```

Alexander Smith · Accepted Answer

For the first part of this challenge they wanted you to make the function an optional and be able to return nil since thats the point of an optional
swift
func search(#name: String) -> String? {
    let names = ["Doc","Grumpy","Happy","Sleepy","Bashful","Sneezy","Dopey"]
    for n in names {
        if n == name {
            return n
        } else {
          return nil
        }
    }
    return ""
}

Then they wanted you to use an if-let statement  like such
swift
if let result = search(name: "Doc") {
  println ("Found")
}

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