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Start your free trialEnyang Mercy
Courses Plus Student 2,339 PointsSPLITTING STRING use the expression pattern '\s+' I have just one error.
./com/example/BlogPost.java:41: error: illegal escape character return mBody.toLowerCase().split("\s+"); ^ 1 error
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;
}
public String[] getWords() {
return mBody.toLowerCase().split("\s+");
}
}
2 Answers
Stuart Wright
41,120 PointsThe clue is in the challenge description, when it says:
(Remember to escape the backslash in your Java code.)
So the solution is simply:
return mBody.toLowerCase().split("\\s+");
Enyang Mercy
Courses Plus Student 2,339 PointsThanks it worked