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Courses Plus Student 188 PointsWhy am I not able to interpolate my strings. let name = "Linda", let greeting = "\Hi there, \(Linda)"
Why I am not able to interpolate my strings. let name = "Linda", let greeting = "\Hi there, (Linda)"
// Enter your code below
let name = "Linda"
let greeting = "\hi there, \(name)"
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYou're really close here! Remember that we only need to interpolate things that are a variable name. "Hi there" isn't a variable name, it's a string literal. The code you're looking for is:
// Enter your code below
let name = "Linda"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
No need for parentheses backslash around the "Hi there." Let's put it this way. If you left off the backslash and parentheses from (name), the string stored in greeting would be very literally "Hi there, name" instead of "Hi there, Linda". The backslash and parentheses are how we tell our program to use the value of a variable inside of a string. Hope that clarifies things!