Constructor with a string paramater?

[kirkulator]

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I have a class for soccer players with these attributes:
//players first name
private firstName;
//players lastName
private lastName;
//number of points scored by player
private int pointsScored = 0;
//number of assists the player had
private int assists = 0;
//the percentage kick penalty rate the player had
private double penaltyKickRate = 0.0;

i am assigned to have a constructor with a single formatted string parameter like this:

public SoccerPlayerStats(String playerinfo) {
//initialize values
}

where the playerinfo string is formatted this way
"Jane Doe: Points Scored: 3 Assists: 5 Kick Rate Percentage: 3"

how in the world can i initialize these values in the contructor? With substrings maybe? It just seems a little wacky to me. Any tips will help : )

- Amanda
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[Valkarie]

Yes, you can use substrings to parse the information from the formatted string. First, you'll want to split the string on the colon characters and then create substrings from each segment of the split string. Then you can parse the values from each substring and assign them to the appropriate attributes. For example, you could use the `String.split` method to split the string on the colon characters: String[] playerInfoArray = playerInfo.split(":");Then you can extract the relevant information from each element in the array. For example: this.firstName = playerInfoArray[0].trim();this.lastName = playerInfoArray[1].trim();this.pointsScored = Integer.parseInt(playerInfoArray[2].trim());this.assists = Integer.parseInt(playerInfoArray[3].trim());this.penaltyKickRate = Double.parseDouble(playerInfoArray[4].trim());Hope this helps!