Thread: char [ ] issue

Hi there, I have been working on a school project worth %15 of my grade, I am half done and it is due tomorrow... I am making a card/war game where 4 numbers are generated, they pick the number(s) of the array.
i.e.


value [rnumx] [rnumy];
value [rnumx2] [rnumy2];

Which ever number is bigger that player wins. Simple enough...

The numbers pick 4 arrays, 2 value arrays, and 2 card array. (player 1 and player 2)

cards [0] [0] = "Ace of Spades";
 
value [0] [0] = 1;

The problem I am having is I need to output the array, "cards [rnumx] [rnumy]" on the screen as a visual like this,

char[] eg = {'E' 'G' };

My teacher left me a paper that says I may have to do something with string manipulation, using code like,

charAt (int index)
length ()

I have no idea how to use these, he never really told me how, I figure I need some for loop to loop getting the length with charAt, but I still, have no idea. If anyone could help, I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
-Pie

Originally Posted by Norm

I assume that cards is a 2 dimensional array of String.
A single element of the array: cards [rnumx] [rnumy] is a String.

I don't understand how the one dimensional char relates to a String. The String class has some methods for working with char arrays. Can you explain what you are trying to do and give an example?

Have you read the API doc for the String class and its methods like charAt()?
To learn what new classes and methods, do I often write a small testing program and write lines of code for many of the methods and print out the results to help understand what they do.

Thanks for the reply Norm, yes cards is a multi dimensional array of 2, being, cards [3] [12]. I was using the char for things like this and it works fine.

char[] n1 = {Character.forDigit (value [rnumx] [rnumy], 10) };

That being value is an int.
I am trying to use the char [] command to output cards [] [] with the rnumx and rnumy int's generating a random card. I want it so that the cards array, is printed out on the screen like I can with the code above, but that is with an integer.

I have also read the API doc. They're still a little confusing because from my understanding I have to get the length () of the word, and have a for loop counting the amount of times or something like that with charAt.

Originally Posted by Norm

cards[0][0] is a String and you can use any String class method with it:

 int len = card[0][0].length();

Please give an example of the contents of a cards array element (a String)
and what you want printed on the screen.
Say the String was: "XYZ 123" what do you want printed on the screen.

There are 52 cards, so it would be,

cards [0] [0] = "Ace of Spades";

For an example.
I am trying to get them printed with
chars [] (Blah blah blah)
then using,
g.drawChars (etc, etc, etc, etc...)

-Thanks

Sorry, I hope this is better

//Declaring cards//
            String[] [] cards = new String [4] [13];
            //spades
            cards [0] [0] = "Ace of Spades";
            cards [0] [1] = "Two of Spades";
            cards [0] [2] = "Three of Spades";
            cards [0] [3] = "Four of Spades";
            cards [0] [4] = "Five of Spades";
            cards [0] [5] = "Six of Spades";
            cards [0] [6] = "Seven of Spades";
            cards [0] [7] = "Eight of Spades";
            cards [0] [8] = "Nine of Spades";
            cards [0] [9] = "Ten of Spades";
            cards [0] [10] = "Jack of Spades";
            cards [0] [11] = "Queen of Spades";
            cards [0] [12] = "King of Spades";
            //There is more, just not showing them...

Then, generating the values, and outputting them, This is how I want the String to output, except,

char[] car1 = {cards [rnumx] [rnumy]};
g.drawChars (car1, 0, car1.length, 50, 300);

if (r1 != 1 && r2 != 0)
                {
                    //Take 2 int, gen nums, run through value, put out in char []
 
                    rnumx = (int) (Math.random () * 3);
                    rnumy = (int) (Math.random () * 13);
 
                    rnumx2 = (int) (Math.random () * 3);
                    rnumy2 = (int) (Math.random () * 13);
 
                    pnum1 = value [rnumx] [rnumy];
                    pnum2 = value [rnumx2] [rnumy2];
 
                   //Having the numbers set up so they take away if needed so they can be put into the char []
 
                    if (rnumy > 8)
                    {
                        char[] n1 = {'1', Character.forDigit (rnumy - 9, 10) };
                        g.drawChars (n1, 0, n1.length, 50, 300);
                    }
 
                    else
                    {
                        char[] n1 = {Character.forDigit (value [rnumx] [rnumy], 10) };
                        g.drawChars (n1, 0, n1.length, 50, 300);
                    }
 
                    if (rnumy2 > 8)
                    {
                        char[] n2 = {'1', Character.forDigit (rnumy2 - 9, 10) };
                        g.drawChars (n2, 0, n2.length, 500, 300);
                    }
 
                    else
                    {
                        char[] n2 = {Character.forDigit (value [rnumx2] [rnumy2], 10) };
                        g.drawChars (n2, 0, n2.length, 500, 300);
                    }

That's what a bit of my code is looking like at the moment, there is still more of course, but if it would be easier giving you the entire thing, just let me know, sorry if I am not good at explaining.

I was never told about the use of drawString(), I only knew about drawChars().

When I compile the code, it says "The type of the initializer, "java.lang.String", is not assignable to the variable, of type "char".

The purpose of the code post was because I was not sure what you wanted, and to help show you what I am doing.

I don't know what you want me to do with the "XYZ 123". Declare the {cards [XYZ] [123]}?
If I change it to that it says, "No field named "XYZ" was found in type "visual".