---
title: RawValue
framework: swift
role: symbol
role_heading: Associated Type
path: swift/rawrepresentable/rawvalue-swift.associatedtype
---

# RawValue

The raw type that can be used to represent all values of the conforming type.

## Declaration

```swift
associatedtype RawValue
```

## Discussion

Discussion Every distinct value of the conforming type has a corresponding unique value of the RawValue type, but there may be values of the RawValue type that don’t have a corresponding value of the conforming type.

## See Also

### Accessing the Raw Value

- [rawValue](swift/rawrepresentable/rawvalue-swift.property.md)