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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Getting There Override an inherited method

escape sequence in the string concatenation

package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost { private String mAuthor; private String mTitle; private String mBody; private String mCategory; private Date mCreationDate;

public String toString() { return "\"BlogPost: \"" + mTitle.toUpperCase() + "\" by \"" + mAuthor.toUpperCase()+ \""; }

public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
  mAuthor = author;
  mTitle = title;
  mBody = body;
  mCategory = category;
  mCreationDate = creationDate;
}

public String getAuthor() {
  return mAuthor;
}

public String getTitle() {
  return mTitle;
}

public String getBody() {
  return mBody;
}

public String getCategory() {
  return mCategory;
}

public Date getCreationDate() {
  return mCreationDate;
}

}

com/example/BlogPost.java
package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
    private String mAuthor;
    private String mTitle;
    private String mBody;
    private String mCategory;
    private Date mCreationDate;

  public String toString() {
    return "\"BlogPost: \"" + mTitle.toUpperCase() + "\" by \"" + mAuthor.toUpperCase()+ \"";
  }

    public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
      mAuthor = author;
      mTitle = title;
      mBody = body;
      mCategory = category;
      mCreationDate = creationDate;
    }

    public String getAuthor() {
      return mAuthor;
    }

    public String getTitle() {
      return mTitle;
    }

    public String getBody() {
      return mBody;
    }

    public String getCategory() {
      return mCategory;
    }

    public Date getCreationDate() {
      return mCreationDate;
    }
}

2 Answers

Just where your returning data by toString method change this: return "\"BlogPost: \"" + mTitle.toUpperCase() + "\" by \"" + mAuthor.toUpperCase()+ \"";

to this

return "\"BlogPost: \"" + mTitle.toUpperCase() + "\" by \"" + mAuthor.toUpperCase()+ "\"";

Thank you for your help!

I finally got it working with: @Override public String toString() { return "\"BlogPost: " + mTitle.toUpperCase() + " by " + mAuthor.toUpperCase()+ " \""; }