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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Challenge task 1 of 2. I need help coding for the string interpolation. Not sure how to set it up? Thank you

Challenge task 1 of 2. I need help coding for the string interpolation. Not sure how to set it up? Thank you

strings.swift
let name = "Rose"
let greeting = "\("Hi there) 

2 Answers

David Papandrew
David Papandrew
8,386 Points

The variable, in this case "name", gets enclosed in parentheses with a leading backslash. See below.

let name = "Rose"
let greeting = "Hi there \(name)" 

Yes... I got it. let name = "Rose" let greeting = "Hi there (name)."