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cesar real
2,110 PointsCorrect the existing hasTile method to return true if the tile is in the tiles field, and false if it isn't. You can sol
I don't understand at all :(
public class ScrabblePlayer {
// A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
private String tiles;
public ScrabblePlayer() {
tiles = "";
}
public String getTiles() {
return tiles;
}
public void addTile(char tile) {
// TODO: Add the tile to tiles
tiles += tile;
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
// TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
if (tiles += tile) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
}
5 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, cesar! I received your request for assistance. You did the first part just fine, but I'm concerned that you may be misunderstanding what the challenge is asking. We want the program to take a group of letters and ask if the player has one of them in their hand. As hinted at in the challenge instructions, you will need to use the indexOf method to do this. You will be looking for the index of the tile inside of the tiles string. If the tile is not found, the value returned by the indexOf method will be -1 indicating that the tile was not found. So you can set up a comparison to check if the result of the indexOf method was greater than or equal to 0. If it was, then the tile was found, otherwise it was not.
Note that while you can do this with if/else statements, this approach will not be accepted by the challenge. This should all be done in one line of code inside a return statement.
I hope this helps, but let me know if you're still stuck!
Bhawani Shankar
954 Pointspublic boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in return tiles.indexof(tile)>0; }
Gonzalo Torres del Fierro
Courses Plus Student 16,751 Pointsreturn tiles.indexof(tile)>0;
this expression it is ok and
return tiles.indexof(tile)>=0;
must work as well...
Albert González
22,953 PointsIt's "return tiles.indexOf(tile)>0;".
Be careful because Java it's sensitive with the methods.
miaedvardsen
1,403 Pointswhy this is not working?
public boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
if(tiles.indexOf(tile)>0){
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
Sonny Torres
Courses Plus Student 301 PointsSonny Torres
Courses Plus Student 301 PointsHow am I going to solve this without using if/else statement? I am stucked for 1 hours now. Please help me.