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Start your free trialElijah Moreno
7,583 PointsgetTileCount method for the scrabble game
Here is my code, I know there is something small I'm forgetting here. I want the method to tell the user how many tile letters they have. Thanks!
public int getTileCount(char t){ int count = 0; for (char tile : mHand.toCharArray()){ count++; } return count; } }
public class ScrabblePlayer {
private String mHand;
public ScrabblePlayer() {
mHand = "";
}
public String getHand() {
return mHand;
}
public void addTile(char tile) {
// Adds the tile to the hand of the player
mHand += tile;
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
return mHand.indexOf(tile) > -1;
}
public int getTileCount(char t){
int count = 0;
for (char tile : mHand.toCharArray()){
count++;
}
return count;
}
}
1 Answer
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsbelow is your code:
public int getTileCount(char t){
int count = 0;
for (char tile : mHand.toCharArray()){
count++;
}
return count;
}
you increase the count for every tile in the hand. However, you only want to increase count if the character passed in as a parameter (t) is in the hand. you need to add an if statement that checks if the tile the loop is currently on is equal to the tile passed in:
public int getTileCount(char t){
int count = 0;
for (char tile : mHand.toCharArray()){
if (tile == t) {
count++;
}
}
return count;
}
Elijah Moreno
7,583 PointsElijah Moreno
7,583 PointsThanks for the reply and explanation. Can't believe I missed that.