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You're working on an interactive text-based menu that asks the user Yes-or-No questions. Users are supposed to reply with just 'y' or 'n', but sometimes they add other characters, such as "yes" or "no".

Complete a method that checks the first character of a String and returns an String according to the following table:

first character of input	return following String
'y'	1
'n'	0
other character	-1

(Note: all input will be lowercase.)

Challenge

Return a number based on the given input String as in the above table.

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David
Apr 6, 4:11 PM

Admin does the Java compiler version used by learneroo permit using Strings in switch statements? I found in stackflow that Java 7 does not allow this.

Thanks and Best regards.
Learneroo
Apr 6, 4:15 PM

We use Java 7 which does allow it. This challenge can use characters which could always be used.
Joshua
Aug 26, 8:45 PM

This is getting kind of frustrating. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong no matter what i do there is always an incompatibility in data types. Either I need a string and I have a character or I have a character and I need a string.
cont...
char firstLetter = word.charAt(0);// + " "; char Charachter = firstLetter; char y = "y"; char n = "n"; if (Charachter == word.charAt(0)) { return "1"; } else if(Charachter == word.charAt(0) ) { return "0"; } else { return "-1"; }

Its saying that my char shown to be defined as a character is a string in the if statement. How does that make any kind of sense? Somebody help me please...
Joshua
Aug 27, 3:27 PM

Nevermind... Forgot that characters require single quotes.
thales
Jul 17, 7:12 AM

my solution:

my code

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