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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Anubhav Chhabra
Anubhav Chhabra
1,383 Points
Posted by Anubhav Chhabra
Anubhav Chhabra
1,383 Points

someone please send me code for scrabble player..,,

error coming in hasTile part of the code

ScrabblePlayer.java 
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) {
    tiles+=tile;
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles

  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    boolean actuallyHasTile=tiles.indexOf(tile)!=-1;
    if (actuallyHasTile){

    return true;
    }
   else
   {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    return false;
  }
   return actuallyHasTile; 
  }

}

1 Answer

doesitmatter
doesitmatter
12,885 Points
doesitmatter
doesitmatter
12,885 Points

Hi Anubhav Chhabra,

You're very close!

You can write this a lot simpler:

public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    boolean actuallyHasTile = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
   return actuallyHasTile; 
}

Even shorter:

public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
   return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1; 
}

tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1 returns a boolean of true when it contains the tile and not true when it does not contain the tile, thats exactly what your method needs to return, so you can directly return the value of tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1

I hope this helped!

sig