With the help of this forum I've designed a program to simulate a deck of cards. The final class in the program is meant to give two options: Option 1 will display the 52 cards, and option 2 will deal out 7 random (nonrepeating) cards. I'm using Collections.shuffle
for this, but I'm getting Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 52
when I select option 2 (the program works and compiles fine otherwise).
Here is the class---let me know if you need any information about the other methods:
public class CardTester {
public static void main(String[] args){
Deck newDeck = new Deck();
System.out.println("Welcome to CardTester! Type 1 to test the deck or type 2 to deal a hand:");
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
int option = keyboard.nextInt();
if (option == 1) {
for(int i = 0; i < Deck.ncard; i++) {
System.out.println(newDeck.getCard(i).whatCard());
}
} else if (option == 2) {
int k = 0;
Integer[] deal = new Integer[52];
for (k = 0; k < deal.length; k++) {
deal[k] = k;
}
Collections.shuffle(Arrays.asList(deal));
for(int j = 0; j < 7; j++) {
//Random rand = new Random ();
System.out.println(newDeck.getCard(deal[k]).whatCard());
}
}
}
}
Stack trace:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 52 at CardTester.main(CardTester.java:93)