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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

John Drexler
John Drexler
4,806 Points
Posted by John Drexler
John Drexler
4,806 Points

I'm inputing let name = "John" let greeting = "\("Hi there, ")\(name)." and that works on XCode, but not here...

Why won't this work in the browser?

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below

let name = "John"
let gretting = "\("Hi there, ") \(name)."

2 Answers

Paul Brazell
Paul Brazell
14,371 Points
Paul Brazell
Paul Brazell
14,371 Points

You do not need to interpolate ("Hi, there"). You're actually closing off the string when you put those quotes in there. Try this:

// Enter your code below

let name = "John"
let gretting = "Hi there, \(name)."
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey there,

Paul already mentioned one mistake. Another problem is that the constant should be called greeting instead of gretting .

// Enter your code below

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

I hope that helps! :)

John Drexler
John Drexler
4,806 Points
John Drexler
John Drexler
4,806 Points

hah! Baby steps, Tobias. I need to master basic spelling before I try tackling Swift :)