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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Types Printing Results

Ollie Drabble
Ollie Drabble
3,058 Points
Posted by Ollie Drabble
Ollie Drabble
3,058 Points

im sure ive answered this right

Given the constant named language, write a println statement which will print the following string: "Learning Swift".

let language: String = "swift"

println("Learning/(language)")

println.swift 
let language = "Swift"
James Lambert
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 Points

just type: println("Learning " + language)

Anything you put in side the () needs to be an object or a string. You have two objects that you are trying to print to the line. The first object is going to be the string "Learning". The second object is the variable called language. You add the two together with the +

3 Answers

James Lambert
James Lambert
Courses Plus Student 14,477 Points

String interpolation is like this: var language = "Swift" println("Learning (language)")

you / when your should have \

The other way is call Concatenating. It will work in Xcode, just not in the exercise you were on. I should have noticed. Sorry.

jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points

James, I think in the above example you have inadvertently omitted the backslash character.

Ollie Drabble
Ollie Drabble
3,058 Points
Ollie Drabble
Ollie Drabble
3,058 Points

i tried that too and it still says i need to interpolate the 'language' constant

AR Ehsan
AR Ehsan
7,912 Points
AR Ehsan
AR Ehsan
7,912 Points

Me too! What code do you have to type!

Ollie Drabble
Ollie Drabble
3,058 Points
Ollie Drabble
Ollie Drabble
3,058 Points

var language = "Swift" println("Learning\ (language)") and make sure you have the backslash the right way round