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iOS Swift Enums and Structs Structs and their Methods Struct Methods

Posted by Tony Turkovic
Tony Turkovic
Courses Plus Student 876 Points

Struct Method - Swift Enums and Structs

Hey all. I'm having this issue with the challenge on Swift Enums and Structs course. My code is compiling with no errors but I'm still getting an error when submitting the answer. Thanks in advance!

Add a method to the Expense struct that will calculate taxes based on a percentage passed to the method. In this task, add a method named calculateTaxes which accepts a parameter named 'percentage' of type Double and does not return anything. (In the next task we will add the calculations to the method).

Add a Double as a return type to the calculateTaxes method and within the method return the following expression: (self.amount * (percentage/100)).

struct.swift 
struct Expense {
    var description: String
    var amount: Double = 0.0
    var percentage: Double

    init (description: String, percentage: Double) {
        self.description = description
        self.percentage = percentage
    }

    func calculateTaxes(percentage: Double) -> Double {
    return (self.amount * (percentage/100))

 }
}

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Tony,

You have a minor error in your code which is you've specified a new description property in the struct which isn't required as description is a parameter so it's already assigned as a contant within the method.

The final code for task 2 you should have is as follows.

struct Expense {
  var description: String
  var amount: Double = 0.0

  init (description: String) {
    self.description = description
  }

  func calculateTaxes(percentage: Double) -> Double {
    return (self.amount * (percentage/100))
  }
}

Happy coding!

Tony Turkovic
Tony Turkovic
Courses Plus Student 876 Points

Thank you!