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Michael Bates
13,344 PointsHow do I return a String?
I am currently stuck on creating a Return function. I am getting an error message about "Tom" not matching the String. How do I correct that issue? Thanks!
func greeting(person: String)-> String{
return person
}
let person = (Tom)
println("Hello \(person)")
4 Answers
Brenden Konnagan
16,858 Pointsok... so first in this exercise you are assigning the result of a function to a value.
func greeting(person: String) -> String {
return person
}
let person = greeting("Tom")
print("Hello \(person)")
So... you can read it like this: The function greeting requires a String value labeled person, and it gives you a string value. You are assigning this string to a constant named person. At the time of declaration, you are providing the greeting func with a value that is a String literal (in quotes). Finally when printing, the code in the function is executed and printed to console using string interpolation.
Brenden Konnagan
16,858 PointsHello Michael!
The first issue that I am looking at with your code is that your declaration of the constant person is incorrect. Swift compiler will not know what you mean. You can initialize a string literal by the following syntax:
let person = ""
Also, the print function needs to call the greeting function to get the result. It currently is not calling the greeting function.
Brenden Konnagan
16,858 PointsYou can also declare the person using the greeting function. i.e.
let person = greeting("Tom")
print("Hello \(person)")
I believe this is more what you are looking for.
Make sense?
Michael Bates
13,344 PointsAhhhhh.... I was very close before this instance and had everything except the greeting function declared. It turns out that I backtracked too far missed even more trying fix my error in the above lines of code!
Thank you very much for the help!
Michael Bates
13,344 PointsI am still getting an error it seems....
Brenden Konnagan
16,858 PointsOk. I will be happy to help more. Post what you got and I will walk through it with you.
Michael Bates
13,344 PointsUnfortunately I can't do it from my Mac as I am out of town, so I do not have the recent attempt readily available. but it still seems like something is out of place as now the most recent error was that it just calls Tom, but not Hello Tom.
So maybe just go from the code above?
Brenden Konnagan
16,858 PointsAwesome!
Michael Bates
13,344 PointsMichael Bates
13,344 PointsI finally found out what the error was!! I took the line of code from the print function and put it in the return function like so:
func greeting(person: String) -> String{ return ("Hello (person)") .......
Thank you very much for your help! I really appreciate it! :)
(For some reason the backslash isn't appearing in the comment, but it is definitely there when I typed this out)