ios - Swift: String value not passing from tableView to Other view -

what i'm trying capture textlabel.text of cell in table view controller, , pass label in view. after lot of research here's have far:

var valuetopass:string!  override func tableview(tableview: uitableview, didselectrowatindexpath indexpath: nsindexpath) {     println("you selected cell #\(indexpath.row)!")      // cell label     let indexpath = tableview.indexpathforselectedrow();     let currentcell = tableview.cellforrowatindexpath(indexpath!) uitableviewcell!;      valuetopass = currentcell.textlabel!.text     println("\(valuetopass) captured")     performseguewithidentifier("thesegue", sender: self)  }    override func prepareforsegue(segue: uistoryboardsegue, sender: anyobject?) {      if (segue.identifier == "thesegue") {           var viewcontroller = segue.destinationviewcontroller finalview          viewcontroller.resto = valuetopass     }  } 

and here code finalview, variable 'resto' lives:

class finalview: uiviewcontroller{    var resto:string!    override func viewdidload() {       super.viewdidload()       println("the restoname is: \(resto)")       restolabel.text = resto  }        @iboutlet var restolabel: uilabel!  } 

but when check whether worked correctly, result of println statements:

the restoname is: nil selected cell #13! tanad thai captured 

why string 'tanad thai' not passing on 'rest' in finalview class? appreciate can get.

you have done excellent job instrumenting code, need think have learned. @ output of instrumentation:

the restoname is: nil selected cell #13! tanad thai captured 

that output proves finalview's viewdidload being called before table view controller's didselectrowatindexpath: called. thus, cannot use didselectrowatindexpath: set value on viewdidload depends! need find earlier moment. personally, suggest doing work in prepareforsegue.

also, i'm little worried may performing segue twice - once in storyboard , once in code. if have set segue emanate cell in storyboard, not need call performseguewithidentifier - called automatically.