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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by ruby1
ruby1
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Concatenating the greeting string with a second string literal

I got through the interpolation task: let name = "Ruby" let greeting = "Hi there, (name)"

Now I need to declare a constant named finalGreeting, and concatenate the value of greeting with the string literal " How are you?".

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

I keep getting an error message! Can somebody please help!

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

1 Answer

james south
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james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

the plus sign doesn't go in the string. you have greeting, it already has a period in it. add a space and that's the end of the first string, then you put the plus, then the second string they ask for. so "string one" + "string two".

ruby1
ruby1
1,938 Points

Thank you James....but it says I have to declare a constant called finalGreeting....I'm not sure that I am following your guidance above correctly as I continue to get an error message : (