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Prabha Gani
627 PointsWhy can't I use == to check equality?
The way I understand this code: if (hits.index.Of(letter) != -1 { display = letter; }
is that, if letter matches the value in hits, then display=letter. How come I cannot instead use the == to check if letter matches the value in hits. For eg. if (letter == hits.charAt(0)) { display = letter; }
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsThe reason is that your understating is off.
The indexOf (not index.of) method checks whether a character or string is present somewhere in the thing it is called on. If it is present somewhere then it returns the index where the character is, if it is not present then it returns -1.
That means that if I had code like this for example: "Hello".indexOf("o") it would return 4 since the letter o is present at index 4 of that string. If I had this code: "Hello".indexOf("a") then it would return -1 because the letter a is not present anywhere in the string.
So in the code example you post the code checks if the letter is present somewhere in the hits string, it does not check if letter and hits contain exactly the same thing, which the == operator would do.
Prabha Gani
627 PointsAhh i see, i get it now. Thanks :-)
rahul jain
Android Development Techdegree Student 645 Pointsrahul jain
Android Development Techdegree Student 645 Pointsyou can do it but it will require additional for loop for iterating through all characters of String hits check this out- \ public String getCurrentProgress() { String progress = ""; for(char letter : answer.toCharArray()) { char display = '-' ;
for(char hitletter : hits.toCharArray()) { if(letter==hitletter) { display = letter; break; }
}progress +=display; } return progress; } \