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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

ben sagbo
ben sagbo
121 Points
Posted by ben sagbo
ben sagbo
121 Points

i don't know what I'm doing wrong

well this is the answer i put let name = "ben" let greeting = " hi there" let finalGreeting = "(greeting) (name)"

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "ben"
let greeting = "\('hi' 'there') \(name)"

2 Answers

Jose Gallanosa
Jose Gallanosa
14,175 Points
Jose Gallanosa
Jose Gallanosa
14,175 Points 
Try this:
let name = "ben"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."
ben sagbo
ben sagbo
121 Points
ben sagbo
ben sagbo
121 Points

thanks but it didn't work

Jose Gallanosa
Jose Gallanosa
14,175 Points
Jose Gallanosa
Jose Gallanosa
14,175 Points 
I didn't realize there's a second part:

let name = "ben"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."
let finalGreeting = "\(greeting)" + " How are you?"

Second part requires string interpolation and string concatenation (adding two strings together)