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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Remaining Characters

David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points
Posted by David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points

Cannot find symbol error on text.length()

I am getting a cannot find symbol error on text.length() and I don't understand why.

In this excersise I need to provide a method which shows the number of charachters left in a tweet.

Therefore I created the 'getRemainingCharacterCount', which simply returns the maximum characters minus the length of the text string: text.length()

Why won't this code compile?

Tweet.java 
public class Tweet {
  private String text;
  public static final int MAX_CHARS = 140;

  public Tweet(String text) {
    this.text = text;
  }

  public String getText() {
    return text;
  }

  public void setText(String text) {
    this.text = text;
  }

  public int getRemainingCharacterCount() {
    return MAX_CHARS - text.lenght();
  }


}

2 Answers

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

Because you have a typo in the word length, you have written it as lenght (the last two letters are swapped). If you fix the typo your code should work.

David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points
David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points

Wow, I have been looking so long at the code without noticing the typo :|

Thank you!