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Shari Cassidy
202 PointsI am getting the error, "Bummer: Ensure you put the string formatter `%s` in your format string" but I do have the "%s"
I am getting the error, "Bummer: Ensure you put the string formatter %s
in your format string" but I do have the "%s" included in my format string: "String.format("First name: %s", firstName)"
String firstName = console.readLine("What is your first name? ");
String lastName = console.readLine("What is your last name? ");
String formatted = String.format("First name: %s", firstName);
console.printf(formatted);
1 Answer
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Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,777 PointsHi Shari. Your code is correct but not exactly what the challenge asked for. Try putting your String.format in the printf and it should work.