Completely stumped on second objective of the first Code Challenge of Creating the MVP course. Any help?

So.... Finally figured it out and answered it myself. Utilizing the corrected typo in the instruction sentence, and the several comments from Craig Dennis I was able to fiddle around and get the answer. Literally, it was just a bunch of trial and error and piecing things together from the comments Craig made. I'm going to go ahead and paste the code that I got that allowed me to pass the second objective as ONLY after looking at it (after I knew it passed) did I actually understand how it was what Craig was talking about. Finally getting to see it is what gave me the opportunity to understand it as asking on here I have to wait for answers to pop up, and then some are not always what the exact answer needed. Thanks for a tough one, Craig Dennis!

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += tile;
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    return tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0;
  }

Thanks, Michael I was getting close but missed out. The problem i had was trying to throw an if else blok around it. The solution is much easier.

Thank you. I was stumped as well. I was trying to do an if else statement. Another possible answer is:

public boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1; }

Take a look at indexOf method: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#indexOf(java.lang.String)

If no such value of k exists, then -1 is returned.

public class ScrabblePlayer { // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has private String tiles;

public ScrabblePlayer() { tiles = ""; }

public String getTiles() { return tiles; }

public void addTile(char tile) { // TODO: Add the tile to tiles tiles+=tile;

}

public boolean hasTile(char tile) {

 return tiles.indexOf(tile) > -1;

}

}

Hi thanks for sharing you thought Here is what I have been tried to solved out his quiz. He wrote " *if the tiles is in the ..." So I thought aha just if states but then got a bummer even thought I got same answers like you got tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0

 ```Java
       public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    /*
    return true if the tiles is in the tiles files, and false if it isnt. you can solve this a few ways
    however I like to practise returning the result of the expression that uses thee index of a char in a string.
     */

    if (tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0) {
        return true;

    } else {
        return false;
    }
}
 ```

But got a bummer again: Bummer! While you could definitely solve this using an if statement, try returning the result of the expression.

" Try to returning the result of the expression" ahha ? no if states then just return. But ?? Why? In logically it is correct, it is OK to write this way, I could get passed

public class ScrabblePlayer {

// A String representing all of the tiles that this player has private String tiles;

public ScrabblePlayer() { tiles = "";

}

public String getTiles() { return tiles; }

public void addTile(char tile) { // TODO: Add the tile to tiles tiles+=tile;

}

public boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in

return tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0;

} }

public boolean hasTile(char tile) { // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in if (titles.indexOf(tile) >= 0) { hasTile = true; } else{ hasTile = false
} }