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3,424 Pointsscrabble part 2 unsure how to make the code pass
Unsure about this task. Also unsure of the why behind it.
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
if (tile) {
tiles += tile;
}
}
}
1 Answer
Tonnie Fanadez
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 22,796 PointsHi Ian Whitney
Thanks for attempting this challenge, this is how we learn
So all you need to do is to loop through character or letters on tiles using for-loop . You can use toCharArray().length method to establish the number/length of tiles array although we obviously know it to be seven tiles.
Next is the String's indexOf() method which returns 0 or number greater than 0 if the letter matches letters on the tiles. So the code will loop through the tiles and return true if letters match.
Please see my code below;
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
for( int i = 0; i < tiles.toCharArray().length; i++ ){
return ( tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0);
}
return false;
}
Hope this helps.