That’s not possible. stringFromDate requires an NSDate, but dob is an optional<NSDate>
> On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Saagar Jha <saa...@saagarjha.com> wrote: > > As such, there shouldn’t be a need for an if; `let dobString = > serverDateFormatter.stringFromDate(dob)` should be sufficient. > > Saagar Jha > > > >> On Aug 4, 2016, at 11:55, Zhao Xin via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org >> <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote: >> >> 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@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote: >> That’s where I would use the ?? operator: >> >> let dobString = serverDateFormatter.stringFromDate(dob) ?? "" >> >> >> Jeff Kelley >> >> slauncha...@gmail.com <mailto:slauncha...@gmail.com> | @SlaunchaMan >> <https://twitter.com/SlaunchaMan> | jeffkelley.org <http://jeffkelley.org/> >>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Daniel Tartaglia via swift-users >>> <swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@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? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-users mailing list >>> swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org> >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >>> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >
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