Find closest longitude and latitude in array from user location - iOS Swift

Question

In the question posted here, the user asked:

I have an array full of longitudes and latitudes. I have two double variables with my users location. I'd like to test the distance between my user's locations against my array to see which location is the closest. How do I do this?

This will get the distance between 2 location but stuggeling to understand how I'd test it against an array of locations.

In response, he got the following code:

NSArray *locations = //your array of CLLocation objects
CLLocation *currentLocation = //current device Location

CLLocation *closestLocation;
CLLocationDistance smallestDistance = DBL_MAX; // set the max value

for (CLLocation *location in locations) {
    CLLocationDistance distance = [currentLocation  distanceFromLocation:location];

    if (distance < smallestDistance) {
        smallestDistance = distance;
        closestLocation = location;
    }
}
NSLog(@"smallestDistance = %f", smallestDistance);

I have the exact same problem in an application I'm working on, and I think this piece of code could work perfectly. However, I'm using Swift, and this code is in Objective-C.

My only question is: how should it look in Swift?

Thanks for any help. I'm new to all of this, and seeing this piece of code in Swift could be a big leg up.

Answer 1

var closestLocation: CLLocation?
var smallestDistance: CLLocationDistance?

for location in locations {
  let distance = currentLocation.distanceFromLocation(location)
  if smallestDistance == nil || distance < smallestDistance {
    closestLocation = location
    smallestDistance = distance
  }
}

print("smallestDistance = \(smallestDistance)")

or as a function:

func locationInLocations(locations: [CLLocation], closestToLocation location: CLLocation) -> CLLocation? {
  if locations.count == 0 {
    return nil
  }

  var closestLocation: CLLocation?
  var smallestDistance: CLLocationDistance?

  for location in locations {
    let distance = location.distanceFromLocation(location)
    if smallestDistance == nil || distance < smallestDistance {
      closestLocation = location
      smallestDistance = distance
    }
  }

  print("closestLocation: \(closestLocation), distance: \(smallestDistance)")
  return closestLocation
}