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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Scott Venza
Scott Venza
219 Points

Concatenation error

I've been playing around with this code challenge for close to an hour, and not sure what else I am missing.

Error: Make sure you're using concatenation to create the final string value required!

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

let finalGreetingPhrase = "\(greeting) \(finalGreeting)"
Trent Christofferson
Trent Christofferson
18,846 Points

This is string interpolation not concatenation. concatenation would be greeting + " " + finalGreeting

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! I'm just going to give a hint here. Remember that concatenation is putting two strings together using a plus sign. Take a look at the following sample:

let str1 = "Hello"
let str2 = "Scott"
let str3 = str1 + ", " + str2

The end result will be that str3 will contain "Hello, Scott". Try again, with these hints in mind! :sparkles: