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Joel Gile
187 Pointsplease help me to understand this
using string literal
// Enter your code below
let firstValue = 1
let secondValue = 2
let product = 1 * 2
let output = "The product of 1 times 2 is 2"
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! Yes, you're using a string literal. However, you're supposed to be using string interpolation to build that string literal. Take a look at the first part of the instructions:
Step 2: Using string interpolation, create a string literal that describes the operation we just performed.
String interpolation is a means to tell Swift (and other languages) to insert the string representation of the value of a variable at a given point inside a string literal. Currently, no matter what you change those numbers to, if we printed the output variable it would only ever print "The product of 1 times 2 is 2". We want those numbers to change depending on what our variables are equal to. Take a look at an example:
let studentName = "Joel"
output = "Hi there, \(studentName)"
print(output)
If we were to then print out the value of output, it would print out "Hi there, Joel". The backslash and parentheses indicate that we're going to substitute the value of that variable (no matter what it is) at that point in the string. In this case, it's your name. If we were to go back and change studentName to "Jennifer", it would then print out "Hi there, Jennifer".
Hope this clarifies things, but let me know if you're still stuck!
