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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Courtney Cassar
Courtney Cassar
1,407 Points

I've declared let name = "Courtney" but on the next line am I meant to let greeting = "Hey, there" ?

and then do I make it interpolated?

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Courtney"
let greeting = "\"Hey There,", (name)"

4 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

First, you only need one string. Second, I don't see why the \ is way in the front of the string. Huh? You heard, you need the \ in front of the (), not in front of the string!

Third, your string in general isn't the string the challenge wanted. The challenge wanted something like "Hi there, Courtney" but your string returns "Hey There, Courtney". Code challenges are very picky and will cause a Bummer! message if you don't do exactly what it says.

Anyway, this is the correct string that you should assign to greeting:

"Hi there, \(name)"
lvwdhydynw
lvwdhydynw
6,443 Points
lvwdhydynw
lvwdhydynw
6,443 Points

You're almost there. First, you have way too many " there. You need just 2: "The left one starts the string and the right one ends it".

Now, if you want to add a variable/constant to an string, you do it like this: (nameOfVariable)

For example, if you have a constant named color with value "red" and you write such code "My favorite color is (color)", it will print out this: My favorite color is red

Tyler Dotson
PLUS
Tyler Dotson
Courses Plus Student 1,740 Points
Tyler Dotson
Tyler Dotson
Courses Plus Student 1,740 Points

Alecander Davison, how do you had code into your comment

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Read the markdown cheatsheet.

It is below the answer box.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and look beneath the answer box.

If you want to learn more about the markdown cheatsheet, look here

Tyler Dotson
Tyler Dotson
Courses Plus Student 1,740 Points
Tyler Dotson
Tyler Dotson
Courses Plus Student 1,740 Points

I honestly dont know what the back sticks are.
this, \ or this, '

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

The backtick character is right below the esc key.

Here: `

Note that the backtick character ` isn't the same as the single quote character '

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

You got it :+1: