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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Sascha Bauml
Sascha Bauml
3,322 Points

Challenge Task 2 of 2 not working. I have the code right in XCODE not working in your IDE

Challenge Task 2 of 2 not working in your IDE works fine in XCODE Please advise. let name = "Sascha" let greeting = "Hi there (name)." let finalGreeting = "(greeting) How are you?"

XCODE Output: "Hi there Sascha. How are you?"

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Sascha" 
let greeting = "Hi there \(name)."
let finalGreeting = "\(greeting) How are you?"

1 Answer

Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points
Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points

Hey Sascha,

I've been seeing this problem arise a few times the pass few days, and it seems that this part:

let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"

has a bug. If you take out the space in " How are you?" at the beginning of the string the issue goes away. Good luck!