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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

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let name = "Sheldon" let greeting = "\("Hi there, ") \(name)\(".")" works fine in xcode but not here. Refuses to pass.

let name = "Sheldon" let greeting = "("Hi there, ") (name)(".")" Passes in xcode fine without error, but will not work here.

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Sheldon"
let greeting = "\("Hi there,") \(name)\(".")"

3 Answers

Carl Smith
Carl Smith
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So the second string you put together should look like this.

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

whenever you put () around something, that's calling the stored information you assigned to that variable to be used. you created a variable called "name" so you only need that around "name" to call that variable to be interpolated into your string. Interpolated is a big and confusing word so I like to think of it as adding something to the string without using a plus sign like you would in concatenation.

Hope this helps!!!

Carl Smith
Carl Smith
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Yes there would, it cut that part out for some reason. Glad I was able to help!

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Thank you for the response it was helpful! Would there be a closed double quote at the very end?

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let greeting "Hi there, (name)." ended up working. Thanks!