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19,883 PointsGetting stuck on task 2. Please point me in the right direction.
The example in the video shows "for (char letter : example.toCharArray())" When I try to follow this model it gives me a syntax error. What goes in the for ()?
public class ScrabblePlayer {
// A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
private String tiles;
public ScrabblePlayer() {
tiles = "";
}
public String getTiles() {
return tiles;
}
public void addTile(char tile) {
tiles += tile;
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
}
public int getCountOfLetter (char letter) {
for (tiles.toCharArray()) {
int count = 0;
if (tiles = letter) {
count += 1;
}
}
return count;
}
}
// This code is here for example purposes only
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ScrabblePlayer player1 = new ScrabblePlayer();
player1.addTile('d');
player1.addTile('d');
player1.addTile('p');
player1.addTile('e');
player1.addTile('l');
player1.addTile('u');
ScrabblePlayer player2 = new ScrabblePlayer();
player2.addTile('z');
player2.addTile('z');
player2.addTile('y');
player2.addTile('f');
player2.addTile('u');
player2.addTile('z');
int count = 0;
// This would set count to 1 because player1 has 1 'p' tile in her collection of tiles
count = player1.getCountOfLetter('p');
// This would set count to 2 because player1 has 2 'd'' tiles in her collection of tiles
count = player1.getCountOfLetter('d');
// This would set 0, because there isn't an 'a' tile in player1's tiles
count = player1.getCountOfLetter('a');
// This will return 3 because player2 has 3 'z' tiles in his collection of tiles
count = player2.getCountOfLetter('z');
// This will return 1 because player2 has 1 'f' tiles in his collection of tiles
count = player2.getCountOfLetter('f');
}
}
2 Answers
Junjie Huang
4,704 Pointspublic class ScrabblePlayer {
// A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
private String tiles;
public ScrabblePlayer() {
tiles = "";
}
public String getTiles() {
return tiles;
}
public void addTile(char tile) {
tiles += tile;
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
}
public int getCountOfLetter (char letter) {
int count = 0;
for (char character: tiles.toCharArray()) {
if (character == letter) {
count += 1;
}
}
return count;
}
}
alex novickis
34,894 PointsYou have the right idea with for (char letter : example.toCharArray()) However the name "letter" is already in use since you passed that in, so make up a different variable name and you want to make a char array from the tiles toCharArray is a method of a string, so you can do
tiles.toCharArray()
Next keep in mind = is for assignment, and == is for comparing