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Drew Hardgrave
1,063 Pointshow to change properties outside of struct
I am having trouble assigning the variable amount that is withing the expense struct to the value of 100. it keeps popping up with an error saying you can't assign this number because it is an int and "amount" calls for a double so i change it to int and it still didn't work. i think it must be because i'm assigning it the value wrong. Please help
struct Expense {
var description: String
var amount: Double
init (description: String) {
self.description = description
}
func calculateTaxes(percentage: Double) -> Double
{
return (self.amount*(percentage/100))
}
var item = Expense(description: "Big number")
Expense(amount: 100)
}
1 Answer
Mark Gong-Guy
2,830 Pointsstruct Expense {
var description: String
var amount: Double = 0.0
init (description: String) {
self.description = description
}
func calculateTaxes(percentage: Double) -> Double {
return (self.amount*(percentage/100))
}
}
var item = Expense(description: "Test")
item.amount = 100
Hello Drew:
Your code for this assignment should be as above. Remember that when you are defining the item you probably want to define it outside the struct itself. The other thing that is really you problem is that to set a value to the struct value amount you need to call it like I did above.
If you have any questions or feel free to let me know!
Mark :)
Drew Hardgrave
1,063 PointsDrew Hardgrave
1,063 PointsThank you so much this helped so much! Really appreciate you taking the time to answer it!