# How to get the non-Nothing type from \`Union{T,Nothing}\`

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**Created:** [October 31, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-non-nothing-type-from-union-t-nothing/30523 "2019-10-31T07:03:26Z")\
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There is ‘nonmissingtype’ that does this for ’Missing’. You could look at it’s definition and do the same for ‘Nothing’.

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