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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Patrick Lange
Patrick Lange
515 Points
Posted by Patrick Lange
Patrick Lange
515 Points

what is wrong about my code?

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strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Patrick"
let greeting = "Hi there,"
let interpolatedGreetingName = "greeting (\ name)"

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

You're so close, but you just have a couple characters reversed when you're trying the string interpolation. The backslash should come before the opening paren, like this:

let interpolatedGreetingName = "greeting \(name)"