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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson
1,266 Points

Concatenation question 2: My Answer looks correct, but is not acceptable.

I have the following. It looks fine, works in Xcode, but I cannot get an acceptable response from the test. Please help.

let name = "Pasan" let greeting = "Hi there, (name)" let finalGreeting = "(greeting). How are you?"

strings.swift 
// Enter your code below
let name = "Pasan"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"
let finalGreeting = "\(greeting). How are you?"
Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson
1,266 Points

I have also tried moving the period. I even changed my name to Pasan. :)

2 Answers

Steven Deutsch
Steven Deutsch
21,046 Points

Hey Chris Robinson,

I don't have a subscription at the moment so I'm unable to view this challenge, however, I believe this task wants you to use String Concatenation and not String Interpolation.

let value = "This is the value we will extract"
let interpolationExample = "\(value) from the variable into a String."

let concatenationExample = "Here we combine two string literals" + " using concatenation."

You really have to pay attention to every line of code, every word, and every character when programming. Which is why I like the specificness of this task :D

What you did is perfectly valid Swift code! You just didn't solve it how Treehouse was asking you to.

Good Luck!

Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson
1,266 Points

Many thanks Steven!!

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?"
Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson
1,266 Points

Many thanks Jeff