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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Dawid Dyrcz
Dawid Dyrcz
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I am stuck here, please help. I have a feeling that my code is correct.

The bummer's output: "Make sure the value of finalGreeting matches requirements specified in the question!". I made sure every dot is in correct place. Please help me!

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Linda"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"

let finalGreeting = "greeting" + ". " + "How are you?"

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You're doing great, but in your last line, you have the word "greeting" inside of double quotes. Doing so makes it a string literal. This means, that currently, the value of finalGreeting is this string: "greeting. How are you?" instead of "Hi there, Linda. How are you"?

Removing the quotes from around greeting turns it back into the variable and the concatenation will be done on the string currently in the variable.

Also, to make your code a bit more concise, you didn't need two concatenations afterwards.

let finalGreeting = greeting + ". How are you?"

Hope this helps! :sparkles: