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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Counting Scrabble Tiles

alvaro howard
alvaro howard
1,124 Points

Question with the for loop

Hello I don't understand why i can't use the letter variable called from the method in my for loop, it is giving me a compile problem.. (it's on Scrabbleplayer.java).

ScrabblePlayer.java
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) {
    tiles += tile;
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
  }
  public int getCountOfLetter(char letter){
  int count = 0;

    for (letter : tiles.toCharArray()){
      if(letter.indexOf(tiles) != -1){
        count ++;
      }
      }

    return count;
}
Example.java
// This code is here for example purposes only
public class Example {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ScrabblePlayer player1 = new ScrabblePlayer();
    player1.addTile('d');
    player1.addTile('d');
    player1.addTile('p');
    player1.addTile('e');
    player1.addTile('l');
    player1.addTile('u');

    ScrabblePlayer player2 = new ScrabblePlayer();
    player2.addTile('z');
    player2.addTile('z');
    player2.addTile('y');
    player2.addTile('f');
    player2.addTile('u');
    player2.addTile('z');

    int count = 0;
    // This would set count to 1 because player1 has 1 'p' tile in her collection of tiles
    count = player1.getCountOfLetter('p');
    // This would set count to 2 because player1 has 2 'd'' tiles in her collection of tiles
    count = player1.getCountOfLetter('d');
    // This would set 0, because there isn't an 'a' tile in player1's tiles
    count = player1.getCountOfLetter('a');

    // This will return 3 because player2 has 3 'z' tiles in his collection of tiles
    count = player2.getCountOfLetter('z');
    // This will return 1 because player2 has 1 'f' tiles in his collection of tiles
    count = player2.getCountOfLetter('f');
  }
}
Tal Yaron
Tal Yaron
9,211 Points

I think you are just missing a closing curly bracket at the end of ScrabblePlayer class.

3 Answers

alvaro howard
alvaro howard
1,124 Points

So i have created a new variable and the if statement had to be the temporary variable from the for == letter, so if that was the same then count++ had to take place.

Daniel Medina
Daniel Medina
13,863 Points

Hello Alvaro,

Looking at your getCountOfLetter method, I noticed that you have an extra space between "count" and "++".

Deleting the space will make it look like this:

if (letter.indexOf(tiles) != -1) {
    count++;
}

Try to run it again after making this change.

alvaro howard
alvaro howard
1,124 Points

hello i have changed that but it won't fix it. I have this error: Bad initializer for for-loop.

If the letter is a char that comes from the method input, why can't i use it in the for?

Daniel Medina
Daniel Medina
13,863 Points

You can't use letter as the start of your foreach loop. The start of a foreach loop requires you to declare a new, temporary variable along with its type.