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becky hayes
2,226 PointsNot sure how to assign a variable to a tuple
Having real problems here ...i've created a variable... but im not sure how to assign a variable to a tuple
func greeting(person: String) -> (greeting: String,language: String) {
let language = "English"
let greeting = "Hello \(person)"
var result = (
return (language, greeting)
}
3 Answers
jonlunsford
15,472 PointsBecky: You are on the right track. Here's how I would implement the function.
func greeting(person: String) -> (language: String, greeting: String) {
let language: String = "English"
let greeting: String = "Hello \(person)"
return (language, greeting)
}
Then you can create a variable called myGreeting and store the return value from the function. In this case a tuple. Using tuple notation you can print the greeting using myGreeting.greeting. To print the language use myGreeting.language. Here's an example...
var myGreeting = greeting("becky")
print(myGreeting.greeting)
becky hayes
2,226 PointsThanks for this! I still cant get past the challenge.. its asking me to:
Create a variable named result and assign it the tuple returned from function greeting. (Note: pass the string "Tom" to the greeting function.)
currently my code looks like this but i dont know what i'm doing wrong!
func greeting(person: String) -> (language: String,greeting: String, result: String) { let language = "English" let greeting = "Hello (person)" var result = greeting("becky")
return (language, greeting, result)
}
jonlunsford
15,472 PointsOutside your function you would declare the variable result. Not in the return statement as you have it above.
func greeting () {
...
}
var result = greeting("your name here")
You are assigning what is returned from the function to a new variable named result. By calling the function, the return value will be stored to result. I hope this helps!