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iOS Object-Oriented Swift 2.0 Complex Data Structures Adding Instance Methods

Posted by Richard Zoltan Toth
Richard Zoltan Toth
8,720 Points

in Xcode it runs perfectly, but the challengeTask does not accept it. Could you help me what am I doing wrong?

Here is my code, please help me how could I solve this? Cheers! :)

structs.swift 
struct Person {
    let firstName: String
    let lastName: String

        func getFullName() -> (String){

        let fullName = firstName + " " + lastName
        return fullName

    }
}

let aPerson = Person(firstName: "Richard", lastName: "Toth")
let fullName = aPerson.getFullName()

1 Answer

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

Hey Richard,

The logic is spot on, but challenges tend to be very picky so it might work on Xcode but not on the challenge because of a minor (irrelevant) detail. I noticed you surrounded the return type in parenthesis. When writing the return type, we don't surround the type in parenthesis. Try this instead:

struct Person {
    let firstName: String
    let lastName: String

        func getFullName() ->  String { // -> String instead of -> (String)

        let fullName = firstName + " " + lastName
        return fullName

    }
}

let aPerson = Person(firstName: "Richard", lastName: "Toth")
let fullName = aPerson.getFullName()

Hope this helps, Rodrigo

Richard Zoltan Toth
Richard Zoltan Toth
8,720 Points

Hi Rodrigo,

thank you so much! I was just so surprised by this, because in the first part of the challenge it accepted it, but in the second part indeed this caused the issue. Anyways, it's good to know, now I have definitely learned this ;)

Thanks again, all the best!