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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Timothy Feltner
Timothy Feltner
556 Points
Posted by Timothy Feltner
Timothy Feltner
556 Points

I cannot seem to find my error, I feel as though I entered the code properly

What did I do wrong?

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

1 Answer

Rodrigo Chousal
Rodrigo Chousal
16,009 Points
Rodrigo Chousal
Rodrigo Chousal
16,009 Points

Hey Timothy,

When encapsulating strings, we surround the name of the string variable we're encapsulating with \( ). This means we are extracting the value of a variable and creating a larger string with it. What you're doing doesn't work because the compiler things "Hi there" and "Timothy" are variables, when in reality they're not. You should be passing in just the variable name to the greeting variable, like so:

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

Hope this helps, Rodrigo