Question

I have a method that returns true or false,

public boolean confirmVotes()
{
System.out.println("Your vote for President is:" + getVotes() );
System.out.println("your vote for Vice President is:" + getVotes());
System.out.println("Is this correct? Yes or No?");
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
String answer = keyboard.nextLine();
if (answer.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes"))
    return true;
 else 
   return false;
}

How do i use this return statement in another method? This is what i am trying to do

 public void recordVote()
{
        if  comfirmVotes returns true for X
             do this for y

}

Answer 1

If you inspect your confirmVotes method, you will notice that you’ve already solved this problem:-

if(answer.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes"))

.equalsIgnoreCase(String s) is a method which returns a boolean, and you’ve already constructed an if statement based on its return value. Thus:-

if (confirmVotes())
{
  // Do whatever
}

Also worthy of note, you can replace:-

if(answer.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes"))
  return true;
else
  return false;

with:-

return answer.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes");