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Andrew Austin
Andrew Austin
1,597 Points
Posted by Andrew Austin
Andrew Austin
1,597 Points

Compiler error for ConferenceRegistrationAssistant challenge, preview button broken.

First, whenever I press the preview button to see my compiler error, I see an empty dark grey window where the error should be. Obviously, this has made it a lot harder to debug my code.

I wrote the following code for the ConferenceRegistrationAssistant challenge of Stage 3 of the Java Objects lesson.

public class ConferenceRegistrationAssistant {

  public int getLineFor(String lastName) {
    /* If the last name is between A thru M send them to line 1
       Otherwise send them to line 2 */
    String mLine1;
    String mLine2;
    int line = 0;
    char lineSort = lastName.charAt(0);
    if (lineSort <= 'm' || 'M') {
        line = 1;      
    } else {
        line = 2;
    }
    return line;
  }
}

I have tried everything I can think of, but without being able to see the errors, I'm stuck.

Thanks, Andrew

2 Answers

Craig Dennis
STAFF
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Unfortunately, ORs do not work that way. It is expecting a boolean and you have a char. You can just use the capital in this scenario, but if you wanted to do this, you would repeat the expression on the right side if the or.

Sorry the compiler didn't work, I will look into it.

Hope it helps!

Andrew Austin
Andrew Austin
1,597 Points
Andrew Austin
Andrew Austin
1,597 Points

Thank you! It worked!

Craig Dennis
STAFF
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

I fixed the compiler error. Sorry bout that everyone!