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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Over 60 proven recipes for developing better iOS applications with Swift 5.3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211195
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Keith Moon Keith Moon
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Keith D. Moon Keith D. Moon
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Chris Barker Chris Barker
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Building Blocks 2. Mastering the Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow 4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types 5. Beyond the Standard Library 6. Building iOS Apps with Swift 7. Swift Playgrounds 8. Server-Side Swift 9. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift 10. SwiftUI and Combine Framework 11. Using CoreML and Vision in Swift 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding conditional unwrapping

The function we created earlier returns an optional value, so if we want to do anything useful with the resulting value, we need to unwrap the optional. So far, the only way we have seen how to do this is by force unwrapping, which will cause a crash if the value is nil.

Instead, we can use an if statement to conditionally unwrap the optional, turning it into a more useful, non-optional value.

Let's create a function that will print information about a pool ball of a given number. If the provided number is valid for a pool ball, it will print the ball's number and type; otherwise, it will print a message explaining that it is not a valid number.

Since we will want to print the value of the PoolBallType enum, let's make it String backed, which will make printing its value easier:

enum PoolBallType: String {
case solid
case stripe
case black
}

Now, let's write the function to print the pool ball details:

func printBallDetails...
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