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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Lewis Mansbridge
Lewis Mansbridge
1,119 Points
Posted by Lewis Mansbridge
Lewis Mansbridge
1,119 Points

 Hi there, can anyone help me please, says the code is wrong, also it keeps crashing as in when i click work it freezes!

Hi there, can anyone help me please, says the code is wrong, also it keeps crashing as in when i click work it freezes and just says "working..." Thank you!!

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Lewis"
let greeting = "Hi there, " + name + "."

3 Answers

luke jones
luke jones
8,915 Points
luke jones
luke jones
8,915 Points

What you're doing here is concatenation. What it's asking for is interpolation. Here's the answer:

let name = "Lewis"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."

The answer you given and the answer I have given produce the same results. The only difference is the method in which its done.

Moderator edited: Added Markdown to code to show syntax highlighting and moved from Comment section to Answer.