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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Organizing Data Splitting Strings

Posted by Jade Sword
Jade Sword
2,659 Points

I need help

I do not understand this question.

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;
  }
}

1 Answer

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Jade, hope this helps:

"Add a new method named getWords that returns the words from the body of the blog post. Since we don't need to worry about special characters, let's just use the regular expression pattern \s+ (or any one or more white space character) for the parameter to the split method. (Remember to escape the backslash in your Java code.)"

  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
  }