Swift: shortcut unwrapping of array of optionals

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This solution will get you a new array with all values unwrapped and all nil’s filtered away.

Swift 4.1:

let arrayOfOptionals: [String?] = ["Seems", "like", "an", nil, "of", "optionals"]
let arrayWithNoOptionals = arrayOfOptionals.compactMap { $0 }

Swift 2.0:

let arrayOfOptionals: [String?] = ["Seems", "like", "an", nil, "of", "optionals"]
let arrayWithNoOptionals = arrayOfOptionals.flatMap { $0 }

Swift 1.0:

let arrayOfOptionals: [String?] = ["Seems", "like", "an", nil, "of", "optionals"]
let arrayWithNoOptionals = arrayOfOptionals.filter { $0 != nil }.map { $0! }

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