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Yunus Emre Gultekin
1,088 PointsCould not found what is needed to be written in my if else block. I can check if tile is in and get a boolean
public boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in boolean isIn = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1; if(isIn){
}else{
}
return isIn;
}
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
boolean isIn = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
if(isIn){
}else{
}
return isIn;
}
}
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsNothing needs to go in your if statement, in fact no if statement is needed period. And because of that this challenge is setup to refuse any code that contains an if statement.
The expression you have written tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1 already produces the desired boolean, so you don't need to pass it to an if statement, you can just return the boolean it produces directly. Like this:
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
// TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
boolean isIn = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
return isIn;
}
Or even more succinctly like this:
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
// TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
}
When you return an expression like that what is actually returned is the boolean the expression results in.
Yunus Emre Gultekin
1,088 PointsThank you for the answer. I have actually worked it out after asking the question. Guess there have been a little mix up with the video I watched.