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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Splitting Strings

Don't know why my code isn't working

error is telling me something about an identifier not being declared or using wrongfully use... i don't know help please

com/example/BlogPost.java
package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mBody = body;
    mCategory = category;
    mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }

 public String getWords()
  {
    return getBody.split("[^\\s+]");
  }

  public String getAuthor() {
    return mAuthor;
  }

  public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
  }

  public String getBody() {
    return mBody;
  }

  public String getCategory() {
    return mCategory;
  }

  public Date getCreationDate() {
    return mCreationDate;
  }
}

2 Answers

Yes, you are correct I just solved the problem. I was calling the member variable instead of the function, and .split("[^\s+]" was incorrectly used. it should have been getBody().split("[^\\s]+"); Thanks.

I am assuming that: return getBody.split("[^\s+]"); is the problem. You are trying to call the method: getBody(); but are calling it as if it was a property: String getBody;

Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Yeah split either using getBody() or mBody