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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Nate Gardner
Nate Gardner
320 Points
Posted by Nate Gardner
Nate Gardner
320 Points

I am stuck on the concatenating for the finalGreeting.

Below is my code attempted in two ways.

Approach 1. let name = "McKinley." let greeting = "Hi there, (name)"

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

Approach 2. let name = "McKinley." let greeting = "Hi there, (name)"

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

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

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

1 Answer

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Two problems. One minor. 

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

let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"

First, you put the period in the wrong place. It needs to be in greeting rather than in name. Second, they asked that you use concatenation rather than String interpolation for finalGreeting.