Creating an extension to filter nils from an Array in Swift

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As of Swift 2.0, you don’t need to write your own extension to filter nil values from an Array, you can use flatMap, which flattens the Array and filters nils:

let optionals : [String?] = ["a", "b", nil, "d"]
let nonOptionals = optionals.flatMap{$0}
print(nonOptionals)

Prints:

[a, b, d]

Note:

There are 2 flatMap functions:

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