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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Aiden Mitchell
Aiden Mitchell
5,572 Points

How to concatenate?

I'm not sure as to why this code challenge isn't checking out. Please help.

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below

let name = "Aiden"

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

let finalGreeting = "\(greeting) + How are you?"

2 Answers

Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points
Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points

You almost have it correct

let name: String = "Jeff"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
let finalGreeting = "\(greeting)" + "How are you?"
Aiden Mitchell
Aiden Mitchell
5,572 Points

Thanks!

Vansh Agarwal
PLUS
Vansh Agarwal
Courses Plus Student 3,965 Points
Vansh Agarwal
Vansh Agarwal
Courses Plus Student 3,965 Points

For the 'greeting' constant, you assigned a string value by using string interpolation which is perfectly fine. For the 'finalGreeting' constant however, it will read "Hi there, Aiden + How are you". For concatenation you want to type ' greeting + " How are you?" or correctly by string interpolation ' "(greeting) How are you?" Hope this helps!