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Christian Thieme
9,448 PointsOn the boolean applyGuess method, how are we adding char letter to the variable hits, since hits is a string?
My question is about the following code:
public boolean applyGuess(String letters){
if (letters.length()== 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("No letter found");
}
return applyGuess(letters.charAt(0));
}
public boolean applyGuess(char letter) {
letter = normalizeGuess(letter);
boolean isHit = answer.indexOf(letter) != -1;
if (isHit) {
hits += letter;
} else {
misses += letter;
}
return isHit;
}
On the boolean applyGuess method, how are we adding char letter to the variable hits or misses, since hits and misses are strings? Just curious, as I thought you could not just add char's to Strings.
Thanks!
2 Answers
Lukas Baumgartner
14,817 Pointspublic boolean applyGuess(String letters){
if (letters.length()== 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("No letter found");
}
return applyGuess(letters.charAt(0));
}
public boolean applyGuess(char letter) {
letter = normalizeGuess(letter);
boolean isHit = answer.indexOf(letter) != -1;
if (isHit) {
hits += letter;
} else {
misses += letter;
} return isHit;
}
Of course you can append a char to a String. A String is in fact an Array of chars. It doesn't work the other way round though (at least that simple) .
Jasmeet Singh
20,145 PointsYes. We can append both a String as well as a Character to a String.