Is this asking me to get the first 140 characters of mText? Or everything after the 140th character?

Nathan;

Welcome to Treehouse!

Task 2

**Add a new method that returns the remaining characters available, based on the length of what is currently stored in mText.

Let's break this task down given the code after we finished Task 1 of:

public class Tweet {
    public static final int MAX_CHAR = 140;

  private String mText;

  public Tweet(String text) {
    mText = text;
  }

  public String getText() {
    return mText;
  }
}

We need to create a method, which you did, I'm going to call mine charactersLeft, doesn't much matter, just what I choose. We need to return the number of remaining characters available, so our return type in this case should be an int. Our method then would be a public int charactersLeft() {}.

Now, what do we need our function to do? We need it to calculate how many characters left (from our MAX_CHAR of 140) we have. That value, as you know, can be calculated with mText.length(). So, to get how many characters we have left we could do something like:

  public int charactersLeft() {
    int charsLeft = MAX_CHAR - mText.length();

    return charsLeft;
  }

Does that make any sense?

Happy coding,

Ken