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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Andre Costa
Andre Costa
3,559 Points
Posted by Andre Costa
Andre Costa
3,559 Points

It says it is wrong. Same code on XCode says it is right. let finalGreeting = "\(greeting). How are you?" ???

I copied this to XCode. It shows no errors, it compiles perfectly.

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Andre"
let greeting = "Hi There, \(name)"

let finalGreeting = "\(greeting). How are you?"

3 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Yes, it compiles and returns the correct output, but the challenge wanted you to use concatenation. Concatenation is basically adding strings together. Here's a couple examples:

"Hello" + "World"  // Evaluates to "HelloWorld"
"Hi " + "There"  // Evaluates to "Hi There"

So, the challenge is asking you to concatenate the name variable and the string ". How are you?" together and store that in a constant called finalGreeting.

I hope this helps :grin:

Happy coding! :tada:

:dizzy: ~Alex :dizzy:

Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points
Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points 
let name = "Jeff"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
let finalGreeting =  (greeting) +  "How are you?"
Andre Costa
Andre Costa
3,559 Points
Andre Costa
Andre Costa
3,559 Points

Many thanks guys!

I do need to be more mindful of details.