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Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, First Edition
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Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, First Edition

by Josh Skeen, David Greenhalgh
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 14m
English
Big Nerd Ranch Guides
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Extracting Substrings

To allow tavern customers to place an order, you will look at two ways to extract one string from another: the functions substring and split.

substring

Your first task is to write a function that allows a player to place an order with the tavern master. Open Tavern.kt in the NyetHack project, add a variable to hold the name of the tavern, and add a new function called placeOrder.

Within the new placeOrder function, use String’s indexOf and substring functions to extract the tavern master’s name from the TAVERN_NAME string and display it. (We will walk through each line of placeOrder after you add it.) Also, remove the old beverage code from the previous exercise. The tavern will feature more than beverage ...

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ISBN: 9780135165188