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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Rea Rahhal
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Rea Rahhal
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Posted by Rea Rahhal
Rea Rahhal
Courses Plus Student 4,732 Points

How to concatenate strings in swift ?

let greeting = "Hi there ,(name)" let sl = "How are you?" let finalGreeting = "(greeting) (sl)"

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Pasan"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
let sl = "How are you?"
let finalGreeting = "\(greeting) \(sl)"

1 Answer

Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points
Stuart Wright
Stuart Wright
41,118 Points

Although they achieve the same result in this case, the challenge needs you to use string concatenation. You are doing string interpolation.

The syntax for concatenation is simply:

let finalGreeting = greeting + sl