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Sam Soffes
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Sam Soffes
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Posted by Sam Soffes
Sam Soffes
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Fails to compile in code challenge but works in Android Studio

For the code challenge:

Finally, set the 'responseData' String variable with the data in 'charArray'. Convert it using the String constructor that takes a char array as its parameter.

I do the following:

String responseData = new String(charArray);

In Android Studio it works just fine, but in the code challenge it doesn't work. Here's all of the code from the challenge.

2 Answers

Jonathan Baker
Jonathan Baker
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Jonathan Baker
Jonathan Baker
2,304 Points

It's failing to compile because you have redeclared the variable named responseData. If you notice at the top of the code, responseData is already defined as String responseData = "". There is no need to redeclare it. =)