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iOS Swift 2.0 Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Aritro Banerjee
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Aritro Banerjee
Courses Plus Student 2,567 Points
Posted by Aritro Banerjee
Aritro Banerjee
Courses Plus Student 2,567 Points

Why is this wrong? let name="Aritro" let greeting="\("Hi there,") \(name)\(".")"

This is not being accepted as the answer to my code challenge but this works fine in the xcode playground. What is wrong?

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name="Aritro"

let greeting="\("Hi there,") \(name)\(".")"
ianhan3
ianhan3
4,263 Points

You're close.

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

1 Answer

Yashim Greene
Yashim Greene
866 Points
Yashim Greene
Yashim Greene
866 Points

Aritro,

you only need to pass in "name" as that is the only variable that you declared.

let name="Aritro"

In the "greeting" variable you are stating what you want to say. Remember anything you place in "" Swift recognizes as a String value (or text value)

So when you do 

let greeting = "Hey there, \(name)"

you are stating your "greeting" variable "Hey there, " and then you are passing in the String variable (name).

in a Swift playground try 

let greeting = "Hey there, \(name)"
print (greeting)

then try 

let greeting = "Hey there," \(name)
print (greeting)

Do you see the difference it makes and why you put it inside the ""

Hope this helps. Happy coding.

ianhan3
ianhan3
4,263 Points

Don't forget the \ before your () or you'll literally print "Hey there, (name)".