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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Complex Data Structures Adding Instance Methods

Posted by Casandra Hayward
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Casandra Hayward
iOS Development Techdegree Student 1,995 Points

Given the struct below in the editor, we want to add a method that returns the person’s full name. Declare a method name

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structs.swift 
struct Person {
    let firstName: String
    let lastName: String

    func fullName() -> String {
    return (\(firstName) \(lastName))
}
}

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You have forgotten to wrap quote marks around your interpolated string. Without that Swift has no idea what you are trying to do since \ is not a valid character when used outside a string. If you add them like this:

func fullName() -> String {
    return ("\(firstName) \(lastName)")
}

Then your code should pass the task.

Steven Deutsch
Steven Deutsch
21,046 Points
Steven Deutsch
Steven Deutsch
21,046 Points

Drop the parenthesis around the return value. It's more Swifty

func fullName() -> String {
    return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
}