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Tianerad 999
4,063 PointsWhat am I supposed to put before the +=?
Task:
Okay great, now can you fix the hasTile method for me, right now it always returns false.
Correct the existing hasTile method to return true if the tile is in the tiles field, and false if it isn't. You can solve this a few ways, however, I'd like you to practice returning the result of the expression that uses the index of a char in a String.
My code is down below. What am I supposed to put before both += tile (near at the bottom of the code).
Please help!
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) {
// TODO: Add the tile to tiles
tiles += tile;
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
// TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
boolean tile = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
if (tile) {
+= tile;
} else {
+= tile;
}
return tile;
}
}
2 Answers
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherHello Tianerad,
You're really close to getting this one! I think we can greatly simplify the implementation of hasTile.
Your first line of code that declares and sets the tile variable to the index of the tile character is all you need to return whether or not the tile parameter value is contained within the tiles string.
To simplify it, I would recommend returning that boolean value. You could shorten it to something like this.
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
return tiles.indexOf(tile) > -1;
}
}
I hope this helps.
Tianerad 999
4,063 PointsOk, thanks a lot! :)