[cc64]

Hi all,
Just doing a little reviewing for finals in my CS class and I'm having a little trouble.

Here's the problem: Implement a method named isBig that will accept one string parameter named alpha. It will return true only if the length of the string is greater than 6.

Here's my answer:
Here is the method:

public boolean isBig(String alpha)
	{
		if (alpha.length() > 6)
			return true;
		else
			return false;
	}

Here is it running in main:

                String alpha;
		System.out.println("Enter a string: ");
		alpha = scan.nextLine();
		
		System.out.println(ob1.isBig(alpha));

And here is the output:

Enter a string:
false

So I can't figure out why it isn't letting me input a String and just skipping right to the method part. It's probably something really simple and it's just going over my head. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Curtis

[Chicon]

Hi Curtis,

Just check if your scanner instantiation is defined this way :
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
Also, check if you don't have a premature scan.close() statement in your coding.

[Jackiefrost9]

Just so you know, you can shorten that method by just returning alpha.length() > 6.

return alpha.length() > 6;

It will evaluate the expression, which is either true or false, then return that.
That's called 'Boolean Zen'.