Keep in mind that Strings are immutable- that means they never change. You can get certain substrings or characters from a String, but the original remains intact.
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Re: backspace action(deleting a character in a string) in a paint event, looping for
Keep in mind that Strings are immutable- that means they never change. You can get certain substrings or characters from a String, but the original remains intact.
Re: backspace action(deleting a character in a string) in a paint event, looping for
Yep, you could have just done word = word.substring(0, word.length()-1); or something like that.
Re: backspace action(deleting a character in a string) in a paint event, looping for
Those seem like reasonably approaches. Or you could use a StringBuilder.
But think about the word growing in terms of an int. What you have is basically this:
int limit = 5;
for(int i = 0; i <...
Re: backspace action(deleting a character in a string) in a paint event, looping for
Yeah, that is going to loop forever. Think about what you're doing- you're looping until the end of the word, but each iteration, you're adding a character to the word. That means you'll never be...