Is there a shorter way to write this?

[willow peak]

System.out.print("Enter departure time:");
int depurtureTime=keyboard.nextInt();
int BoardingTime= (depurtureTime-1);
String boardingTime=BoardingTime+":30";

[pulsar vale]

<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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[sharp mirage]

not really

you an shorten a bit of it by not having one of the variables

System.out.print("Enter departure time:");
int depurtureTime = keyboard.nextInt();
String boardingTime = (depurtureTime-1) +":30";

[formal cipher]

unless you remove BoardingTime variable and use that at boardingTime then there's not much you can do

[formal cipher]

^^

[sharp mirage]

but nope

[buoyant patrol]

System.out.print("Enter departure time:");
System.out.print(keyboard.nextInt() -1 + ":30");

[formal cipher]

that doesn't look practical

[willow peak]

I think this is the best for the rest of my program

[formal cipher]

if you do want to have BoardingTime variable, you can make it shorter by:

int depurtureTime = keyboard.nextInt(), BoardingTime= (depurtureTime -1 );

you would have to change less code that way

[buoyant patrol]

@formal cipher From a practical perspective, there is no reason to shorten this code.

[formal cipher]

they did ask for a shorter way

[willow peak]

Thank you all!