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Drux
Drux

Reputation: 12670

(Escaped) double quotes in string interpolations (in Swift)

Can one use (escaped) double quotes in a string interpolation in Swift?

let s = "\(n) \(capitalized ? "H" : "h")ours"

produces "Unexpected '"' character in string interpolation (which is in line with a NOTE in the documentation), but I've also had no success with several attempts at escaping the inner double quotes so far.

So can one use (escaped) double quotes in string interpolations and if so how?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2446

Answers (3)

Antonio Favata
Antonio Favata

Reputation: 1891

Since Swift 2.1 we can use double quotes when interpolating, so the original code now works.

Upvotes: 2

LastMove
LastMove

Reputation: 2482

@Daniel answer is good, but in your case you could use the builtin capitalizedString method.

let s =  "hours".capitalizedString

or

let s =  "\n hours".capitalizedString

This method capitalize the first letter of each word. Edit:

let s =  (capitalized ? "hours".capitalizedString : "hours")

Upvotes: 1

Dániel Nagy
Dániel Nagy

Reputation: 12015

You can escape characters with the \, but I think you couldn't use the ternary operator this way in string interpolation. So I would suggest to put capitalized ? "H" : "h" in a variable, and then it will work.

UPDATED

You can use the ternary operator in string interpolation, but you cannot use string literals in there, so you should put the whole expression to a variable, or the upper and the lowercase h.

Upvotes: 0

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