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Posted by Cos N
Cos N
844 Points

What am i doing wrong?

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.

Declare a constant named finalGreeting, and concatenate the value of greeting with the string literal " How are you?".

Example: "Hi there, Pasan. How are you?" Bummer! Make sure you're using concatenation to create the final string value required! Preview Get Help Recheck work strings.swift

1 // Enter your code below 2 let name = "Linda." 3 let greeting = "Hi there, (name)" 4 let finalGreeting = "(greeting), (How are you)" 5 ā€‹

1 Answer

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points

If you're using string interpolation you need to put a backslash before the parentheses:

 let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."

But I think there might be a bug in the forum that hides the backslash if you had already done this.

Also, they want finalGreeting to be made using string concatenation which means using the + sign:

let finalGreeting = greeting + " How are you?"

And make sure you're giving it exactly the punctuation and spaces that it's asking for.

Cos N
Cos N
844 Points

Thank you so much !