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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types Recap: Swift Types

Posted by Juan Juarez Baldizon
Juan Juarez Baldizon
Courses Plus Student 3,352 Points

Code could not be complied, works in xcode, returns error on challenge question.

On the last part of the question: "The product of 2 times 4 is 8". Assign this string to a constant named output. this is my code, it returns no errors in xcode but returns an error on the site when I hit check work, error is code could not be complied

let firstValue = 10 let secondValue = 11 let product = (firstValue * secondValue) let output = "The product of (firstValue) ("times") (secondValue) ("is") (product)"

1 Answer

Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points
Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points

Try taking the "times" and "is" out of the parentheses and quotation marks:

let output = "The product of \(firstValue) times \(secondValue) is \(product)"

I hope this helps!

Juan Juarez Baldizon
Juan Juarez Baldizon
Courses Plus Student 3,352 Points

Thanks! It makes sense!