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Posted by taahrqqhar
taahrqqhar
14,147 Points

I'm having trouble with this Swift question

Challenge task 3 of 3 Call the function greeting and pass it the string "Tom".

func greeting(person: String) {

    println("Hello \(person)")
}

greeting("Tom")

6 Answers

Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
Austin Rau
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Did you get it?

taahrqqhar
taahrqqhar
14,147 Points

no I did not... I dont know why it's not working

Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
Austin Rau
Courses Plus Student 3,214 Points

That code up there works in my Playground hhm....

taahrqqhar
taahrqqhar
14,147 Points

yes I know mines too but I dont know whati'm doing wrong on typing it

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
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Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

Just try refreshing the challenge. The code looks exactly as what I tried, and the challenge succeeded. 

func greeting(person: String) {
    println("Hello \(person)")
}

greeting("Tom");
taahrqqhar
taahrqqhar
14,147 Points

I'm copying your answer and still dont work

Jesse Price
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Jesse Price
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Jesse Price
Jesse Price
Courses Plus Student 14,333 Points

Remove the semicolon at the end

greeting("Tom")

Drew Scolaro
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Drew Scolaro
Courses Plus Student 855 Points
Drew Scolaro
Drew Scolaro
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println("Hello (person)") this works

Drew Scolaro
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Drew Scolaro
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Drew Scolaro
Drew Scolaro
Courses Plus Student 855 Points

I;m having trouble with learning swift basics. I cain't gat passed the challenge where is asks you to; "Given the constant named language, write a println statement which will print the following string: "Learning Swift". (Remember to use the language constant within the string you pass to your println statement)." Pleas help me.