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Posted by Hein Zaw
Hein Zaw
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Hi, I was stuck in below question, I believe my answer should hit the point, but it keep giving me an error message,

Question:

Now add a new String array to strings.xml named 'phoneNumbers'. Give it three items: "Home", "Work”" and "Mobile".

My answer:

<string-array name = "phoneNumbers">
    <item>"Home"</item>
    <item>"Work"</item>
    <item>"Mobile"</item>

  </string-array>

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Two things jump out:

  1. There should be no spaces between name, the equals sign, and "phoneNumbers". I believe that is invalid XML, though I don't remember off the top of my head. :-/

  2. The values of each item should not include quotes. Everything between the item tags is the value of the String. In this case, I guess the instructions are a little unclear: the values should not include the double quotes. (This is different than doing it in Java, obviously, where the double quotes make it a String.)

Hope this helps! :smile: