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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Complex Data Structures Adding Instance Methods

India Poetzscher
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India Poetzscher
Courses Plus Student 3,821 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

Given the struct below in the editor, we want to add a method that returns the person’s full name. Declare a method named fullName() that returns a string containing the person’s full name. Note: Make sure to allow for a space between the first and last name

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

  func fullName() -> [Person] {
   var name = [Person]

    let finalName = Person(firstName + lastName)
    name.append(finalName)
  }

  return name


}
    //let name = Person(firstName: String, lastName: String)

1 Answer

Dave Faliskie
Dave Faliskie
17,793 Points

Two main things that are wrong here. 1) you don't need to return an array of the persons full name just a string with the full name, try something like:

name = "\(firstName) \(lastName)"

2) you currently have your return statement outside the function - return name should be before the }