ScrabblePlayer For Each Loop Challenge

Question

In all honesty, I don't even know how I've made it this far in the course. I seem to do perfectly well at following along, but I feel like the concepts continuously escape me.
I think I have the basis for what is required of this challenge in the code below; I left a //comment to show where it is, but I can't figure out what to pass in...
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks!
```ScrabblePlayer.java
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  private String mHand;
  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    mHand = "";
  }
  public String getHand() {
   return mHand;
  }
  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // Adds the tile to the hand of the player
    mHand += tile;
  }
  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
   return mHand.indexOf(tile) > -1;
  }
  //Here is what I have thus far...
  public int getTileCount() {
   int tileCount = 0;
    for () {
      tileCount++;
    }
    return tileCount;
  }
}
```

Youngchul Kim · Accepted Answer

Based on what you have done so far, I'm guessing you must be stuck at how to use the for-loop. I was kind of bummed out on this one as well, because I didn't know the syntax for the "Enhanced" loop. See this link (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/General/JavaSyntax/enhanced-for-loops.html) or link2 (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/language/foreach.html) for quick syntax reference. 
And please look below code from previously discussed thread (https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/solved-help-cannot-get-this-correct). I've just added comments to help you (me) read it :)
```java 
/*pass char named theTile to getTileCount class
set initial count as 0   
put whatever is in mHand into the toCharArrary() to char placeholder named tile                    
compare the placeholder tile with user passed char named theTile
increment the counter if it has a match
//otherwise, just pass the count.
*/               
public int getTileCount (char theTile) {  
    int count = 0;                        
    for (char tile : mHand.toCharArray()) {  
      if (tile == theTile){                 
          count++;                                            
      } 
    }
      return count;                                     
  }
```
As you can see, you weren't far from completing the challenge.

ISAIAH S · Answer

This post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3799130/how-to-iterate-through-a-string) may be helpful.

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