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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Splitting Strings

Nikita Voloboev
Nikita Voloboev
4,816 Points

Shouldn't this code work?

Here is the code for the task :

  public String[] getWords() {
      return mBody.split("\s+"); 
  }

I think it should work as per the description. I can't debug it as it doesn't show why this does not compile. Why doesn't this work? Thank you.

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

  public String[] getWords() {
      return mBody.split("\s+"); 
  }


  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;
  }
}

1 Answer

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

it seems to accept:

  public String[] getWords() {
      return mBody.split("\\s+"); 
  }

the challenge states "(Remember to escape the backslash in your Java code.)".