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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Viktor Ilvonen
Viktor Ilvonen
2,343 Points

Swift 3.0 Basics: Concatenate strings

This Challenge must be bugged xD What am i doing wrong... please help.

  • Thank you!
strings.swift 
let name = "Alexandra"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
let finalGreeting = "\(greeting) \(name), How are you?"

// OR

let name = "Alexandra"
let greeting = "Hi there,"
let question = ".How are you?"
let finalGreeting = greeting + ", " name + ", " + question

// What is the right way of doing it ??

1 Answer

Thomas Dobson
Thomas Dobson
7,511 Points
Thomas Dobson
Thomas Dobson
7,511 Points 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Tom"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)" //use string interpolation to add string name to greeting.

let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?" //concatenate greeting with " How are you?"

I hope this helps.

Viktor Ilvonen
Viktor Ilvonen
2,343 Points

It did help. Thanks.