function person string

It just wants you to run the function below your code given the input, Tom.

Example:

func apple(size,color) {
    println("The apple is " + size + " and is " + color + ".")
}

apple(giant,red) // This will produce "The apple is giant and is red."

@Akilah,

Thank you for the response. I was able to decipher after reading the question once again. It did not really ask for me to run the code, using person ( Tom ) and I kept on including it ( For example, if you pass a person named "Tom" to the function then it should display: Hello Tom.) So, once I left it out, it went thru. They were simply asking the format, and I kept on trying to call it.

Thank you.

Getting rather frustrated. I tried the aboves, and the following below. Any help would be great Thanks.

func greeting(person: String) {
    println("Hello \(person)")
}

String interpolation involves using the variable(s) inside of a string, which is different than string concatenation which can include multiple sub-strings

let name = "Akilah"

//String concatenation
println("My name is " + name + " and I like to sing")  

//String interpolation
println("My name is \(name) and I like to sing.") 

//Both println statements print "My name is Akilah and I like to sing" to the console

You pass values to functions by placing a variable name inside the parenthesis of the function definition

//function definition
func passVariable(variable_name) {
   println(variable_name)  //prints some value to the console
}

//function call
passVariable("Akilah")  // prints "Akilah" to the console

Hope that helps

Best Regards

AJ

@ Logan and co.

I am still getting this message. "Your greeting printed "Hello Tom." when called with "XYZZY" as the parameter. It should have printed "Hello XYZZY".

It looks like I got it right, and followed your advise on adding a space after hello, then why is it still giving me the error message ?

Don't call the function and it will work.

This is the solution :

func greeting(person:String) { let person = "XYZZY" println("Hello (person)")

} greeting("XYZZY")

Answer is

func greeting(person:String) { print("Hello (person)") }

greeting("Tom")