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Java Java Objects (Retired) Creating the MVP For Each Loop

Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points
Posted by Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points

[SOLVED] Help cannot get this correct

Question:

So back to that ScrabblePlayer. I found that it's not enough to know if they just have a tile of a specific character. We need to know how many they actually have. Can you please add a method called getTileCount that uses the for each loop you just learned to loop through the characters and increment a counter if it matches? Return the count, please, thanks!

What I came up with: UPDATED (Never mind I got it, I had a typo)

public class ScrabblePlayer {
  private String mHand;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    mHand = "";
  }

  public String getHand() {
   return mHand;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // Adds the tile to the hand of the player
    mHand += tile;
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
   return mHand.indexOf(tile) > -1;
  }

  public int getTileCount(char theTile){
  int count = 0;
    for( char tile : mHand.toCharArray()){
      if(tile == theTile){
    count++;
      }
    }
  return count;
  }
}
ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  private String mHand;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    mHand = "";
  }

  public String getHand() {
   return mHand;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // Adds the tile to the hand of the player
    mHand += tile;
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
   return mHand.indexOf(tile) > -1;
  }
}
Dan Donche
Dan Donche
6,214 Points

Thanks for posting. I was having trouble with that exercise.

Christopher Mayfield
Christopher Mayfield
19,928 Points
Christopher Mayfield
Christopher Mayfield
19,928 Points

me too, then I realized that I wasn't referencing the argument presented in the exercise. Thank you so much for this.

Kyler Callaway
Kyler Callaway
6,257 Points

I was having a hard time with this one I didnt think passing a char parameter to the method would solve the issue