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mariam
318 PointsWhy can't you have multiple console.printf's using the same strings?
I was doing a the final exercise in the first challenge task of Multiple Strings and I had to delete the previous console.printf's in order to get my final console.printf accepted. Apologies if I'm not utilizing the correct vocabulary -- open to learning that too!
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 PointsThe issue is not about having multiple console.printf statements specifically. It a side-effect of the grader code that gets confused when searching the code output for the correct answer or it interprets the extra output as a "mistake". In the case of the Strings Variables And Formatting challenge, The console output for task 2 and 3 are the same, but when scanning the code to see if you used the %s formatting it can get confused by the other console.printf. I had to comment out the task 2 solution to get task 3 to pass.
Justin Kraft
26,327 PointsThe only reason I see this caused a problem is because the code challenges are very particular and only accept specific answers.