Prevent “Array index out of range” Error in Swift

If you don’t know if the array index you are calling exists, here is a nice way to just return nil instead of an error. I grabbed this from StackOverflow but unfortunately lost the link. I am putting it here because I use it once in a while and get tired of searching for it.

extension Array {
    subscript (safe index: Int) -> Element? {
        return indices ~= index ? self[index] : nil
    }
}

Use it like this:

array.item[safe: 1]

 

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