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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Splitting Strings

Sergei Miroshnikov
Sergei Miroshnikov
3,313 Points

Help Validator keeps asking for getWords method ...

I have added the required method , do not have any compiler errors . What is the problem ?

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 (String body){    
    return body.split("[\\s+]");
    }
}

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You're really close here, so I'm going to leave some hints. But the big reason it's not even detecting your method is because the arity/signature of the function is incorrect.

  • The method should have no parameters
  • The method should split on mBody
  • The square brackets are unnecessary and will cause a compiler error inside the split() arguments

I think you can get it with these hints, but let me know if you're still stuck! :sparkles:

Sergei Miroshnikov
Sergei Miroshnikov
3,313 Points

Thanks for the hint , solved .