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iOS Object-Oriented Swift 2.0 Complex Data Structures Adding Instance Methods

shane reichefeld
PLUS
shane reichefeld
Courses Plus Student 2,232 Points

can Someone explain what this is asking for and what it needs? and why?

Need clarification

structs.swift
struct Person {
    let firstName: String
    let lastName: String
}

1 Answer

Paul Brazell
Paul Brazell
14,371 Points

The question is asking you to create a method as part of the Person struct. All this means is that you create a function inside the body of the struct.

This specific method is asking you to combine the first and last name fields to generate a full name. You would do this more than likely using string interpolation or you could use concatenation. you aren't passing anything extra into the function, so it wouldn't have any parameters. It would however be returning the string containing the full name.

In the return, all you do is combine the first and last name to generate the full name.

struct Person {
    let firstName: String
    let lastName: String

   func getFullName() -> String {
   return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
  }

}