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Varsha Aditya
203 Points[SOLVED] Adding the correct pronoun to my TreeStory
So I want to add some code so that the final story will say "He is always adverb verbing." or "She is always adverb verbing," depending on the person's gender. I realize the easiest way would be to create another string called gender with some awkward question like "Are you a he or a she?" in the console.readLine, but I'd like to sound a little smoother. The other option is for the computer to somehow guess the gender based on the name, and I don't want to do that either--too complicated for me!
So, I first I made:
String gender = console.readline("Is this person male or female?");
And then later I wantedd to create an if/else statement that redefines the gender string with the correct pronoun, like:
if (gender.equalsIgnoreCase("male")) { String gender = ("He"); } else String gender = ("She");
But...not surprisingly, that didn't work. So maybe I have to create another variable? Or a boolean that registers true if the gender is "female" and then turns into a string that says "She"? Or is there an easier way? Please help!
Lee Reynolds Jr.
5,160 PointsI was just browsing through the forum and saw this post. I like it and I love how you figured it out. You did it in a much simpler way than I would have figured it out haha. Keep up the good work and Happy Coding :)
Ken Alger
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ISAIAH S
1,409 PointsYou could have also done:
static Console console = System.console();
String maleOrFemale = console.readLine("Is this person male or female? ");
if (maleOrFemale.equalsIgnoreCase("male")) { String gender = "He"; } else { String gender = "She";}
Varsha Aditya
203 PointsVarsha Aditya
203 PointsSOLVED. In case anyone is interested, I added the if/then statement to the very end like this:
if (gender.equalsIgnoreCase("male")) { console.printf("Your TreeStory:\n-----------------------------------------\n"); console.printf("%s is a %s %s. He is always %s %s.", name, adjective, noun, adverb, verb); } else { console.printf("Your TreeStory:\n-----------------------------------------\n"); console.printf("%s is a %s %s. She is always %s %s.", name, adjective, noun, adverb, verb);