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Posted by Ashmit Pathak
Ashmit Pathak
4,441 Points

Can't understand why Craig Dennis took that step.

in his tutorial Prompting guesses after String guess = guessInput.nextLine(); we wrote char guess = guess.chatAt(0); why did he even write that plz explain

1 Answer

Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points
Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points

Are you in the course that making Hangman game? If that is the case Craig just want to make sure if a user input more than one characters, for instance the user input "aioueorstru" which all of these characters will be put into String variable guess, only the first character which in this case is 'a' will be eligible as guess.

Other characters will be ignored thus it will not be in record that other characters ever being used as guess so that if after that the user input 'i' as the guess it still valid.