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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Posted by Robin Groeneveld
Robin Groeneveld
7,371 Points

I don't understand what I have to do with the hasTile method, I had a working if/else statement but that is not accepte

What else do I need to do besides returning true and false using if else?

ScrabblePlayer.java 
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;// TODO: Add the tile to tiles

  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    return false;
  }

}

1 Answer

nihouse
nihouse
7,160 Points
nihouse
nihouse
7,160 Points

there was a hint if you solved it with an if/else statement to solve it without an if/else statement. To do it without you could do:

return tiles.indexOf(tile) > 0;

so if the index is greater than 0, the statement returns true, if not false, so you got it without if/else :)