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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Splitting Strings

help needed

I have added string method but still, it doesn't pass. Help needed.

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 getAuthor() {
    return mAuthor;
  }

  public String getTitle() {
    return mTitle;
  }

  public String getBody() {
    return mBody;
  }

  public String getCategory() {
    return mCategory;
  }

  public Date getCreationDate() {
    return mCreationDate;

    public String getWords() {
    //new method named getWords 
    String words[] = mBody.split("\\s+"); //create array, split mBody on white space and puts words in array 
    return words; //return array
  }




}

3 Answers

Gabe Olesen
Gabe Olesen
1,606 Points

Hey Ashma,

You're very close, this line of code public String getWords() you're defining that you'll only return a String but in your return statement you're returning an array of Strings. You can't convert an array of strings into a String so to fix this, you make sure you return an String[] on the creation of the method like so;

public String[] getWords() {
//code
}

You've pretty much got everything else done. You simply return the mBody followed by the split() method and the expression, like so;

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

Hope this explains everything!!

~Gabe :coffee:

Hi Gabe, doesn't pass, It still gives an error on compiler that expected 11 words but recieved only 1.

thanks, it passed. :)