Very confused as to why my linking of "how are you" after my greeting constant does not work in this situation?

Question

Can someone tell me what is wrong with this code? It works fine in the compiler...

strings.swift

// Enter your code below
let name = "Eric"
let greeting = "Hi there, \(name)."
let finalGreeting "\(greeting) how are you?"

Answer 1 · 2017-05-04T04:55:17Z

May 4, 2017 4:55am

There are two issues:

In the code in your post you have forgotten the = sign in the last line.
The challenge specifically asks you to use string concatenation for the third task, string concatenation is a technique where you use the + operator to combine separate string together. The technique you are currently using is called string interpolation. String concatenation and string interpolation are two different techniques that results in the same thing. So visually the result won't be any different, but for the purposes of this task you have to use string concatenation for the code to pass.

So instead of placing greeting inside the string you have to use + to combine it with " How are you?" like this:

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

Answer 2 · 2017-05-04T04:53:43Z

May 4, 2017 4:53am

you are missing an "=" in your last command. It should read: let finalGreeting = "(greeting) how are you?"

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