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Noah Cox
964 PointsHow does it want me to make a line 1 or 2?
Here's my code, it says it enters "Zimmerman" but doesn't get line 2 on the preview, the instructions don't seem very clear to me... Could someone clarify what "send them to line 2" really means?
public class ConferenceRegistrationAssistant {
public int getLineFor(String lastName) {
/* If the last name is between A thru M send them to line 1
Otherwise send them to line 2 */
int line = 0;
if (lastName.charAt(0) < 'M'){
line += 1;
System.out.println("Line 1");
} else {
line+= 1;
System.out.println("Line 2");
}
return line;
}
}
1 Answer
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHey Noah,
You've pretty much got it, except for one thing. When checking the last name to assign them to a "line", you want to re-assign the value to the int variable line, but you are actually incrementing the value of line by one. Therefore, whichever one of the conditions run, line becomes equal to 1 and therefore assigns both to line # 1.
Instead of line += ... you need to reassign by just using line = ...
I hope that makes sense. So for the if statement, it would be line = 1; and for the else statement, it would be line = 2.
Keep Coding!
