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Terrence Adderley
Courses Plus Student 775 PointsPlease help
Can someone help me separate last names into separate lines. Line one is for A - M and line 2 is for O - Z.
public class ConferenceRegistrationAssistant {
public int getLineFor(String lastName) {
if (charAt(0)) = 'A' < 'm' {
int line = 1;
} else {
int line = 2;
}
/* If the last name is between A thru M send them to line 1
Otherwise send them to line 2 */
int line = 0;
return line;
}
}
2 Answers
Devin Scheu
66,191 PointsThe code I got for this challenge looks like this:
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;
char letter = lastName.charAt(0);
if(letter < 'M'){
line = 1;
} else {
line = 2;
}
return line;
}
}
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Bryan Dornon
3,672 PointsI think it has to do with your if condition. Try this:
if (lastName.charAt(0) < 'M')
What you have seems to be trying if(charAt(0)) which won't work as well as trying to set 'A' equal to 'M' which also won't work, then running the statements in the if.