What does an exclamation mark mean in the Swift language?

Question

The Swift Programming Language guide has the following example:

class Person {
    let name: String
    init(name: String) { self.name = name }
    var apar         


        

Answer 1

If you use it as an optional, it unwraps the optional and sees if something is there. If you use it in an if-else statement is is code for NOT. For example,

if (myNumber != 3){
 // if myNumber is NOT 3 do whatever is inside these brackets.
)