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Daniel Schwemmlein
4,960 PointsStuck at the conference line challenge
Hey guys! I'm supposed to split up people in a queue by their last names here. It says: "Lines are determined by last name, and they will end up in line 1 or line 2. Please help me fix the getLineFor method." I tried a few things but it didn't work. Does anyone have some ideas?
public class ConferenceRegistrationAssistant {
private String mAnswer;
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 */
boolean line = mAnswer.indexOf(lastName);
if (< 'M') {
int line = 1;
return line;
} else {
int line = 2;
return line;
}
}
}
1 Answer
Michael Hess
24,512 PointsHi Daniel,
You may want to use charAt(0) -- this will get the first letter of the last name. You can use the < operator to compare the first letter of the last name this way.
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;
} else{
line =2;
}
return line;
}
}
Hope this helps! If you're still having issues hit me up!