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Thread: Please help! Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

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    Default Please help! Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

    Please could someone check my code and tell me where the problem is? Thanks.

    /** DECK OF CARDS
      * created by Arutha2321
      */
     
      class Card {                				  // A playing card, with variables i - number of card, color - color of card, value - value of card.
        int i;
        String color;
        String value;
     
        public Card (int j, StringBuffer f, StringBuffer h) { // A constructor of a card.
    	this.i = j;
    	this.color = f.toString();
    	this.value = h.toString(); 
        }
     
        public String showCard() {                       	  // A method that returns the color and value of a card in a string.
    	return (this.color + this.value + "\n");
        }
      }
     
      class Deck {						  // A deck of card, with one variable cards, which is an array of instances of class Card.
        Card[] cards;
     
        public Deck() {
          String[] colors = {"heart", "spade", "diamond", "club"};
          String[] values = {"7", "8", "9", "10", "J", "Q", "K", "A"};
     
          StringBuffer co = new StringBuffer();               
          StringBuffer va = new StringBuffer();
     
          for (int i = 0; i < colors.length*values.length; i++) {    // This creates one Card for every combination of color and value.
    	co.append(colors[i%colors.length]);
    	va.append(values[i%values.length]);
    	this.cards[i] = new Card(i,co,va);
          }
        }
     
        public void showDeck() {				 	 //A method that prints out all of the cards in the deck.
          for (int i = 0; i < colors.length*values.length; i++) {
    	System.out.println(this.cards[i].showCard());
          }
        }
      }
     
      public class DeckOfCards {					// A class with the main function, that creates a deck and shows its content.
        public static void main(String[] args) {
          Deck deck1 = new Deck();
          deck1.showDeck();
        }
      }

    Compilation goes all right, but when I want to run the program, I get this error message:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
                   at Deck.<init>(DeckOfCards.java:34)
                   at DeckOfCard.main(DeckOfCards.java:47)
    Last edited by Arutha2321; November 18th, 2009 at 02:26 AM.


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    Default Re: Please help! Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

    You forgot to initialize the array of cards:

    public Deck()
    {
         Card[] cards = new Card[52];
         // rest of code
    }

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    Default Re: Please help! Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

    Thank you very much.

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