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iOS Swift Basics Swift Types String Manipulation

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let name = "Naveed" let greetings = "Hi there,\(name)" Why is this code not working ?

Want to know what would be the right way to write this code since I am getting error

strings.swift 
// Declaring my name

let name = "Naveed"
let greetings = "Hi there,\(name)"

1 Answer

andren
andren
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andren
andren
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Challenges are very picky about names and strings, you usually have to name things and format the strings to look exactly the way the challenge requests. Even the tiniest of differences will often mark the code as wrong, even if it technically runs and works just fine.

The specific issues in your case is that you have named the variable greetings rather than greeting which is the name the task specified, and you are missing a space after the comma within the string. If you fix those issues like this:

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

Then your code will pass the first task.

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Hi Andren, thanks for your very helpful comment. It worked now guess I was not following the instructions 100% correctly. Will try to remember that.