Deleting a Row from a UITableView in Swift 3?

Question

I\'m new to coding and learning swift, I am following a tutorial for swift 2 and working with swift 3 so there are a few issues I have when following along, this being one I

Answer 1

Works for Swift 3 and Swift 4

Use the UITableViewDataSource tableView(:commit:forRowAt:) method, see also this answer here:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
  if editingStyle == .delete {
    print("Deleted")

    self.catNames.remove(at: indexPath.row)
    self.tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPath], with: .automatic)
  }
}