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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types Recap: Swift Types

San Francisco
San Francisco
28,373 Points
Posted by San Francisco
San Francisco
28,373 Points

Challenge 2 of 2 https://teamtreehouse.com/library/swift-20-basics/swift-types/recap-swift-types

What is the proper format for this to work?

Thanks

types.swift 
// Enter your code below
let firstValue = 69
let secondValue=70
let product = firstValue * secondValue 
let output = "The product of (\firstValue) + 'times' + (\secondValue) 'is' + (\product)"


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1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

I think the backslash comes before the bracket - \(varName). Also, you don't need the + signs as you are not concatenating the strings - everything is enclosed within the inverted commas, so the whole thing is a string, just with the variable values interpolated in there. Example below.

I hope that helps.

Steve.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points 
let firstValue = 10
let secondValue = 20
let product = secondValue * firstValue
let output = "The product of \(firstValue) times \(secondValue) is \(product)"