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Java Java Objects (Retired) Creating the MVP Remaining Tries

Exception related to %s

here's the console : You have 7 tries left to solve: Exception in thread "main" java.util.MissingFormatArgumentExcepti on: Format specifier '%s'

here's the code in prompter.java:

import java.io.Console;

public class Prompter {
  private Game mGame;

  public Prompter(Game game) {
    mGame = game;
}

  public void play() {
    while (mGame.getRemainingTries() > 0) {
      displayProgress();
      promptForGuess();
    }
  }

public boolean promptForGuess() {
  Console console = System.console();
  String guessAsString = console.readLine("Enter a letter  ");
  char guess = guessAsString.charAt(0);
  return mGame.applyGuess(guess);
}

public void displayProgress() {
  System.out.printf("You have %d tries left to solve: %s\n",
                    mGame.getRemainingTries());
                    mGame.getCurrentProgress();
}
}
Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

Edited code for markup

1 Answer

The variables are separated by a comma and the parenthesis wrap the string and all variables.

public void displayProgress() { 
  System.out.printf("You have %d tries left to solve: %s\n", mGame.getRemainingTries(), mGame.getCurrentProgress()); 
}