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Kendhall Lebron Ruiz
Courses Plus Student 1,143 PointsI don't know what I am doing wrong
Correct the existing hasTile method to return true if the tile is in the tiles field, and false if it isn't. You can solve this a few ways, however, I'd like you to practice returning the result of the expression that uses the index of a char in a String.
After I run it I keep getting the message: Bummer: While you could definitely solve this using an if statement, try returning the result of the expression.
I don't know what exactly to do
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) {
// TODO: Add the tile to tiles
tiles += tile;
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
// TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
int result = tiles.indexOf(tile);
if(result!=-1){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
}
1 Answer
adrian miranda
13,561 PointsThere is no need to store the result of answer of indexOf() and then check it with an if statement.
Instead just directly check if indexOf() returns -1. So, like this:
return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1
They just want you to get used to the fact that if you check the result of indexOf() against -1, you already have the result you need.