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Nick Gressle
736 PointsTrouble with Functions challenge
I am working on the Functions section of the Swift course and I cannot get the test challenge to compile. I put my code into an XCODE playground and it works there. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
My code below.
// Playground - noun: a place where people can play
import UIKit
func greeting
(personName: String) -> String {
let greeting = "Hello, " + personName + "!"
return greeting
}
println (greeting("Tom"))
1 Answer
Andrew Shook
31,709 PointsSo that problem is the comma and the exclamation point. The code challenge is not checking your code so much as it is checking the output of your code. Given the name, Tom, you code should output "Hello Tom". Instead, your code is outputting "Hello, Tom!". If you remove the comma and the exclamation point then your code should pass the challenge.
// Playground - noun: a place where people can play
import UIKit
func greeting(personName: String) -> String {
let greeting = "Hello " + personName
return greeting
}
println (greeting("Tom"))
Nick Gressle
736 PointsNick Gressle
736 PointsThank you so much!! I was having a major brain lock on this one.
Andrew Shook
31,709 PointsAndrew Shook
31,709 PointsNo worries, it happens. At my office when we run into problems like this, problems that shouldn't exist but do, we call out "Sanity Check" and someone else comes over to look at the code. Most of the time a fresh pair of eyes can spot the problem in seconds.