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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Kim Fook Lo
Kim Fook Lo
304 Points
Posted by Kim Fook Lo
Kim Fook Lo
304 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 2

I don't really don't understand this question,

Declare a constant named finalGreeting, and concatenate the value of greeting with the string literal " How are you?".

Example: "Hi there, Pasan. How are you?"

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Lo"

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

let finalGreeting = "greeting + ". " + How are you?"

2 Answers

Matthew Long
Matthew Long
28,407 Points
Matthew Long
Matthew Long
28,407 Points

You're on the right track! But your quotes are in the incorrect location. 

let name = "sawsan"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
let finalGreeting = greeting + ". How are you?"

Anything inside quotes is a string. This means variables and operators such as + will not be evaluated. Unless you use interpolation like you did in the first task. However, task two is looking for string concatenation so interpolation will not work for this challenge even though it is the preferred method by many!

Also, you don't have to post your question 4 times. Not a ton of people respond to iOS development questions on here for some reason, but someone usually gets to it!

Kim Fook Lo
Kim Fook Lo
304 Points
Kim Fook Lo
Kim Fook Lo
304 Points

Hi Matthew, thanks.