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razmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 PointsUsing " How are you?" will result in an incorrect answer. Must use "How are you?" without the extra space.
The instructions say we should concatenate the constant 'greeting' with the string literal " How are you?", but this doesn't work. We have to remove the extra space at the beginning of the string to pass the challenge.
// Enter your code below
let name = "Raz"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."
let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"
6 Answers
Shaun Moore
6,301 PointsThis would be useful to make sticky or something...if only I could :p
Josue Gisber
Courses Plus Student 9,332 Pointsfirst you have to interpolate the constant greeting and them concatenate the string "How are you?" Like this : let finalGreeting = "(greeting)" + "How are you?" i hope this help!
razmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 PointsI'm not sure that is correct. I'm pretty sure that would result in the following string: "(greeting)How are you?"
Check out the two lines of code below. They are identical, except the first line has a space before the letter H. Treehouse marks the first one incorrect, but the second one correct.
let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?" let finalGreeting = greeting + "How are you?"
My question is, why is the first answer incorrect when we were specifically instructed to add a space before the letter H? Check out the instructions.
I'm only mentioning this in case somebody else gets stuck on this like I did. I guess you can just delete the space for now.
Josue Gisber
Courses Plus Student 9,332 Pointswell, i forgot to add the backslash to it. Sorry. let finalGreeting = "(greeting)" + "How are you?"
razmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 PointsAh, I guess it would display correctly if you used a slash (which would make it string interpolation), but the quiz asked us to use concatenation, not string interpolation
The instructions start by saying:
"Now that we have an appropriate greeting for our user, let's make a bit more polite by concatenating the greeting string with a second string literal."
If you remember, the concatenation example given in a previous video was
let concatenatedAddress = country + province + city
The instructions go on to say:
"Declare a constant named finalGreeting, and concatenate the value of greeting with the string literal " How are you?"."
Here, we are clearly instructed to put a space before the letter H in How are you. I believe we are asked to do this so the final string will display "Hi there, Pasan. How are you?", and not "Hi there, Pasan.How are you?"
Putting it all together, I would assume the answer should be:
let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"
Unless I am missing something completely obvious here, I think the above answer is correct, and most users would try it. Worried other users might get frustrated when they find it doesn't work
Again, I ended up getting through the quiz by removing the space, so I'm not sure how your suggestion of using string interpolation applies to my question. For reference, here was the (in)correct answer that got me through the quiz.
let finalGreeting = greeting + "How are you?"
Josue Gisber
Courses Plus Student 9,332 PointsOk, i get it. I was just giving you an idea of how i did it and it worked. Now as far as i know, i don't think they asked for a space before the H in the instruction. In fact they didn't ask for it. So probably that's why your code didn't work. Unles they ask for it, don't do it, follow specifically what the instruction says. Thanks!
razmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 PointsHi there,
Nice to know that string interpolation worked for you. I'll keep it in mind for the future.
Regarding the instructions, here is the exact text copied and pasted from the quiz. It clearly includes a space.
'concatenate the value of greeting with the string literal " How are you?".'
Notice the space.
Josue Gisber
Courses Plus Student 9,332 PointsWell, guess what? I just try the challenge again, i add an space between the " and the H and it Work!!
razmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 Pointsrazmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 PointsSo it's a bug or mistake? Or did I genuinely get it wrong for some reason?
Shaun Moore
6,301 PointsShaun Moore
6,301 PointsYeah, I've seen this a few times today
razmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 Pointsrazmig pulurian
Courses Plus Student 23,889 PointsAh, thanks for the reply Shaun. We'll the answer is there in case people need to see it. I'd imagine it's a bit tricky to get it all working as it should on the back end there :)