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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift 2.0 Getting Started with iOS Development Swift Recap Part 1

Posted by arun mathew
arun mathew
825 Points

creating a instance method that returns a String.

I have created a instance method which returns a String value, but i am getting a warning to create a method which returns a string value. can anyone helps me out please

structs.swift 
struct Tag {
    let name: String
}

struct Post
{
    let title : String
    let author : String
    let tag : Tag

     func description () -> String

    {
        let desc : String = "\(title) by \(author). Filed under \(tag.name)"

        return desc

    }
}

let firstPost = Post(title: "arun", author: "mathew", tag: Tag(name:"basketball"))
let postDescription = firstPost.description()

1 Answer

Kate Sprout
Kate Sprout
769 Points
Kate Sprout
Kate Sprout
769 Points

I think that all you'll have to do is take out the space between "description" and "()" in your function declaration.

arun mathew
arun mathew
825 Points

thx Kathleen, now the code works