Adding objects to an arraylist inside another arraylist

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I'm sorry about how vague this is, but there's just too much code to put up.

It's a game of Five Card Stud. Basically I'm attempting to add objects to an arraylist inside of another arraylist.

Here's where I create the players array and add an array from the Hand class to it, at least I think that's what's happening:

players = new ArrayList<Hand>();
for(int index = 0; index < playerCount; index++)
{
    players.add(new Hand());
}

Later I attempt to add cards to the Hand array within the players array in a circular deal. As there are five cards, the first loop goes five times. The second goes for the length of the players array (the total number of players) and should add a single card each time.

for(int dealt = 0; dealt <= 5; dealt++)
{
    for(int index = 0; index <= players.size(); index++)
    {
        //what goes here????
    }
}

There is a deal method in the Deck class initialized by:

myDeck = new Deck();

....but I'm not sure how to apply it to the 'sub-array.'

This is a tall order I feel, so thanks in advance!

Jeroen Vannevel · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-31 02:44:06Z

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for(int dealt = 0; dealt <= 5; dealt++)
{
    for(int index = 0; index <= players.size(); index++)
    {
        players.get(index).addCard();
    }
}

Does the addCard method take any parameters?

Right now every player will get 5 cards.

answered Oct 31, 2013 at 2:44

Jeroen Vannevel

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4 Comments

Inward Jim Over a year ago

addCard inside the Hand method does take the parameter (Card card). How will that change things?

Jeroen Vannevel Over a year ago

Then you'll have to add a card to the addCard() method call. Does card have a parameterless constructor?

Inward Jim Over a year ago

FORGET ADDCARD! Looking over another premade class called deck, I found a method simply called deal which takes no parameters and does what I need. When I swap in .deal() for .addCard() it says "cannot find symbol - method deal()"

Inward Jim Over a year ago

I initialize Deck with:myDeck = new Deck();

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