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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Brice Corbin
Brice Corbin
1,872 Points

Don't understand why it doesn't work

I'm trying to use the same thing as we say on the lesson and it keeps saying me that i need to make sure the value of greeting is an interpolation

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Brice"
let greeting = "\("Hi there,") \(name) + \(".")"

3 Answers

Chris Stromberg
PLUS
Chris Stromberg
Courses Plus Student 13,389 Points
Chris Stromberg
Chris Stromberg
Courses Plus Student 13,389 Points

This part is correct.

let name = "Brice"

The next part needs a little work. interpolation simply takes the object (name object) and places it within your string. To do that you need to use

 \()

to contain whatever object it is you want place in your string.

For example

let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."
Brice Corbin
Brice Corbin
1,872 Points
Brice Corbin
Brice Corbin
1,872 Points

Thanks guys, was confused that was I actually did first, but the exercice returned an error. Wasn't really explicit that i had to create 2 constants and they interpolate them... So this: let greeting = "Hi there, (name)."

Was returning my exercice as wrong which confused me. All good now :)

Jordi Gámez
Jordi Gámez
3,568 Points
Jordi Gámez
Jordi Gámez
3,568 Points

Here you are:

// Enter your code below
let name = "Brice"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."