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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

Posted by Shaun Ogilvy
Shaun Ogilvy
614 Points

String confusion

I'm being told i'm not assigning the correct string to the variable? is the string not (name)" ?

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

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You don't need to wrap all of the text of an interpolated string in \() blocks. You only need to wrap variables names you want to insert. So the string should look like this:

let name = "Shaun"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)"