Can someone explain how I would go about checking that the new valid word entered is only one character different from previous word???
nsafi17 0 Newbie Poster
peter_budo 2,532 Code tags enforcer Team Colleague Featured Poster
oldString.length() != newString.length();not so hard
joenameth10 0 Newbie Poster
Just start writing a simple method eg
public static boolean isValidChange(String word1, String word2) { ...
You have 3 cases to test for - change, add, remove a letter. Code and test those 1 at a time. Start with 1 letter changed, that's probably the easiest.
How would you be able to check to see if only one letter was changed?
I am able to check if a letter was removed/added using .length(), but I can't seem to figure out a method to check if it has been changed..... Thank you in advance
Joe
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stultuske 1,116 Posting Maven Featured Poster
set the value of the second string,
set a difCounter to 0
iterate over the original one by charAt, and compare the char's. if the char's are different, add 1 to your counter.
then replace your second string by the concatenation of the two substrings (part of that string before the different char, part of that string after that different char)
and continue searching for differences, starting from the same position
if your counter turns out to be > 1, you've got more than one character changed.
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