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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Censoring Words - Looping Until the Value Passes

Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell
2,739 Points
Posted by Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell
2,739 Points

Instead of noun.equalsIgnoreCase("hi") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("idk") could you do noun.equalsIgnoreCase("hi" || "fur")

Instead of using noun.equalsIgnoreCase("something") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("somethingelse") could you do noun.equalsIgnoreCase("something" || "somethingelse" || "even more")

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Patrick Tse
Patrick Tse
10,682 Points

I don't think so.

equalsIgnoreCase() is a method that takes one String as the argument. It will give you a compile error when you have '||' operator and multiple strings as the arguments.

Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell
2,739 Points
Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell
2,739 Points

Ok :( they should make it so you could it's a lot less typing