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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

John Winship
John Winship
632 Points
Posted by John Winship
John Winship
632 Points

unable to properly update hasTile method

I am not getting any compiler errors just the response "you could do an if statement, but try returning the result.' I obviously am missing something, but can't use the Java documentation to help since there is no errors.

ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;
  private String no;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
    no = ""; 
  }

  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
    boolean hasTile = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
    if (hasTile) {
      tiles += tile;
    } else {
      no = no;
     }
  return hasTile;
  }
}

1 Answer

John Winship
John Winship
632 Points
John Winship
John Winship
632 Points

Never mind...figured it out (well, at least googles it)

public boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in return tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0; }