Out of bound error in function

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Hello eveyone

I am a beginner at kotlin
I am working on the following function

fun wordSelector(): Triple<String, List<String>, ArrayList<Int>> {

    blanks.clear()                                    
    randomindex.clear()                               


    val size = words.size                            
    val randomise = (0 until size).random()    
    selectWord = words.elementAt(randomise)           
    val blankSize = selectWord.length-1              

    for (i in 0..blankSize){
        checkArray[i] = selectWord[i].toString()
    }

    for (i in 0..blankSize) blanks.add("_")     


    for (i in 0..blankSize) {

        val randomBlank = (0..blankSize-3).random()   
        if (randomindex.contains(randomBlank)) {      
            continue
        }
        else {
            randomindex.add(randomBlank)           
        }

    }

    return Triple(selectWord, blanks, randomindex)  
}

I am encountering the following error :

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 out of bounds for length 0
at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBounds(Preconditions.java:64)
at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBoundsCheckIndex(Preconditions.java:70)
at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.checkIndex(Preconditions.java:266)

I’m getting this error at the following line of the code:

 for (i in 0..blankSize){
        checkArray[i] = selectWord[i].toString()
    }

I am getting this out of bound error even when the size in for loop is -1 the actual size. (i.e blankSize = selectWord.length - 1)
Any solution?

Thank you

Suganesh

2

What about checkArray? Are you sure it’s at least blankSize in lenght?
You haven’t shown it definition and you’re not resizing it beore writing to it.

3

I have defined it in the main function which is in a different file. I am working on a hangman game, and its a package, the above-mentioned function is in a separate file within the package.

Can you give an example of what do you mean by resizing ?

Thank you !

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Make sure that checkArray[i] is a valid expression. If checkArray doesn’t have enough elements that will throw the exception you saw.
I don’t know checkArray type. If it’s an array you need to allocate a new one. If it’s an initially empty list you can just do checkArray.add(selectWord[i].toString()). If it’s a list with something in it you might want to clear it beforehand.

In genernal this isn’t very idiomatic kotlin one would usually do checkArray = selectWord.map{ it.toString() }

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checkArray is a valid expression. Anyway checkArray.add(selectWord[i].toString()) this did the job.
I wanted to add the elements from selectWord to checkArray in same order as selectWord. e.g if selectWord has the word cold then I wanted checkArray to have it as “c”,“o”,“l”,“d”.
But seems like order does not matter. It works

Thank you !