The flatMap()
method was useful for a variety of things in Swift 4.0, but one was particularly useful: the ability to transform each object in a collection, then remove any items that were nil.
Swift Evolution proposal SE-0187 suggested changing this, and as of Swift 4.1 this flatMap()
variant has been renamed to compactMap()
to make its meaning clearer.
For example:
let array = ["1", "2", "Fish"]
let numbers = array.compactMap { Int($0) }
That will create an Int
array containing the numbers 1 and 2, because "Fish" will fail conversion to Int
, return nil, and be ignored.
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