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Terrence Adderley
Courses Plus Student 775 PointsCan someone please look at my code !
I am stuck, I believe that my error lies in my if else statement but my Boolean might be falsely set up as well. Please help !
public class ScrabblePlayer {
private String mHand;
public ScrabblePlayer() {
mHand = "";
}
public String getHand() {
return mHand;
}
public void addTile(char tile) {
mHand += tile; // Adds the tile to the hand of the player
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
boolean hasTile = mHand.indexOf(tile) >= 0;
if (hasTile) {
hasTile > 0;
} else {
hasTile < 0;
}
return false;
}
}
2 Answers
Nicholas Olsen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,342 PointsWell, it is not clear what the problem is. Are you getting an error? Just looking at your code I can tell you that your hasTile method doesn't do anything but return false. Is that the problem?
Uthman EbdEl Khalek
Courses Plus Student 5,460 Pointsboolean hasTile = mHand.indexOf(tile) >= 0;
The above statement returns true if tile is found and returns false if tile is not found. and then just
return hasTile;
hasTile is a boolean and cannot be used to compare with >0 and <0,
Also it's same as you method name hasTile, I think they should be different.
One possible way for the your final code is below.
boolean gotTile = mHand.indexOf(tile) >= 0;
return gotTile;
Others can correct or confirm.