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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Caleb Kleveter
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Caleb Kleveter
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Posted by Caleb Kleveter
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 Points

Having trouble with the 'String Manipulation' challenge.

I know Swift, so I must be doing something silly, because I keep getting this error: Bummer! Make sure the value of finalGreeting matches requirements specified in the question!, what am I doing wrong? I think all I need is another set of eyes to find a simple bug. I need to concatenate greeting with " How are you?"

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below

let name = "Caleb"

let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."

let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"

2 Answers

Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points
Richard Lu
Richard Lu
20,185 Points

Hey Caleb,

I saw this problem arise yesterday, and it seems that this part:

let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"

has a bug. If you take out the space in " How are you?" at the beginning of the string the issue goes away.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Yep - that's it. The string doesn't want to start with a space. I'm sure that'll get fixed in time - it has been reported as an issue.

Steve.