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Courses Plus Student 246 PointsHow to solve this code challenge
So back to that ScrabblePlayer. I found that it's not enough to know if they just have a tile of a specific character. We need to know how many they actually have. Can you please add a method called getTileCount that uses the for each loop you just learned to loop through the characters and increment a counter if it matches? Return the count, please, thanks!
public class ScrabblePlayer {
private String mHand;
char tile;
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() {
for(char count:mHand.toCharArray()) {
if(count==tile){
count++;
return count;
}
}
return 0;
}
}
1 Answer
Paul Ryan
4,584 Pointspublic 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 tile){
int counter = 0;
for(char c: mHand.toCharArray()){
if(c==tile){
counter++;
}
}
return counter;
}
}
Couple points you are incrementing count++ but you declared count as a char. You need to declare an integer to keep track of the matches.
You also seem to be trying to return the count (which is a char) through each iteration of the loop. This should not be returned till the count has finished (also returned as an int).
Anymore questions, just ask.