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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by John Fiedler
John Fiedler
2,264 Points

Code challenge / basics.

Sigh... how embarrassing. Can't pass the code challenge on interpolated strings for Swift 2 basics. My code is: let name = "John" let greeting = "("Hello there, ") (name) (".")"

The quickquiz says "Bummer. Make sure it's an interpolated string" but the code works in playground... pasted into the challenge from there.

What am I doing wrong?

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "John"
let greeting = "\("Hello there, ") \(name) \(".")"

1 Answer

Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points
Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points

Hi John,

You only need to use the brackets to interpolate a variable into a string, so instead of wrapping bothe the text and variable, you wrap just the variable...

let name = "John"
let greeting = "Hello there, \(name)."
John Fiedler
John Fiedler
2,264 Points

Thanks, Damian. Perfect. Much cleaner. Very nice. Thanks again!