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Java

I keep getting errors when I try to run the program?

heres my code

public class Game { private String mAnswer; private String mHits; private String mMisses;

public Game(String answer) { mAnswer = answer; mHits = ""; mMisses = ""; }

public boolean applyGuess(char letter) { boolean isHit = mAnswer.indexOf(letter) >= 0; if (isHit) { mHits += letter; } else { mMisses += letter; } return isHit; }

public String getCurrentProgress() { String progress = ""; for (char letter: mAnswer.toCharArray()) { char display = '-'; if (mHits.indexOf(letter) >= 0 { display = letter; }

 progress += display; 
}
 return progress; 

} }

import java.io.Console;

public class Prompter { private Game mGame;

public Prompter(Game game) { mGame = game; }

public boolean promptForGuess() { Console console = System.console(); String guessAsString = console.readLine("Enter a letter: "); char guess = guessAsString.charAt(0); return mGame. applyGuess(guess); }

public void displayProgress() { System.out.printf("try to solve: %s\n", mGame.getCurrentProgress()); }

}

public class Hangman {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Enter amazing code here:
  Game game = new Game("treehouse");
  Prompter prompter = new Prompter(game);
  prompter.displayProgress();
  boolean isHit = prompter.promptForGuess();
  if (isHit) {
    System.out.println("We got a hit!");
  } else {
    System.out.println("Whoops that was a miss");
  }
  prompter.displayProgress();
}

}

1 Answer

You are missing the closing parenthesis here:

if (mHits.indexOf(letter) >= 0)

Still getting errors and its not working

./Game.java:33: error: illegal start of type
return progress;
^
./Game.java:33: error: ';' expected
return progress;
^
./Game.java:35: error: class, interface, or enum expected
}
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m
./Game.java:33: error: illegal start of type
return progress;
^
./Game.java:33: error: ';' expected
return progress;
^
./Game.java:35: error: class, interface, or enum expected
}
^
./Game.java:31: error: cannot find symbol
progress += display;
^
symbol: variable display
location: class Game
4 errors