I'm creating some code that prints a message to console with a border around it to reinforce my programming knowledge. I'm having issues with this specific snippet of code that should be splitting a large string into an array of strings which can then be printed
//splits message into multiple parts
//lines is an integer representing how many lines the text would take up within the provided border
//panewidth is an integer representing the desired size of the window created by the borders
String[] MessageParts = new String[lines];
for (int i = 0; i < lines; i++){
MessageParts[i] = (message.substring(i*(panewidth-2), (i+1)*(panewidth - 2)));
//
//HACK
System.out.println(MessageParts[i]);
//
}
Full code: ChrisMadeaGame Class:
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package chrismadeagame;
/**
*
* @author 570694
*/
public class ChrisMadeaGame {
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
//Generates a statholder object for score
StatHolder Score = new StatHolder();
StatHolder Turns = new StatHolder();
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO code application logic here
ChrisMadeaGame ChrisMadeaGame = new ChrisMadeaGame();
ChrisMadeaGame.display("Test");
}
public void display(String message) {
//Width of pane goes here
final int panewidth = 80;
//The character used for the border
final String BorderChar = "*";
//The character used for whitespace
final String WhitespaceChar = " ";
//Calculates how many lines will be necessary to print the message. Always rounds up to an integer
final int lines = (int) Math.ceil((panewidth - 2)/message.length());
//
//HACK
System.out.println(lines);
System.out.println(message.length());
System.out.println(panewidth);
System.out.println((panewidth - 2)/message.length());
//
//splits message into multiple parts
String[] MessageParts = new String[lines];
for (int i = 0; i < lines; i++){
MessageParts[i] = (message.substring(i*(panewidth-2), (i+1)*(panewidth - 2)));
//
//HACK
System.out.println(MessageParts[i]);
//
}
//Prints out the top border
for (int i = 0; i < panewidth; i++){
System.out.print(BorderChar);
}
System.out.println("");
//Prints the score line
System.out.print(BorderChar);
System.out.print("");
//Figures out how much whitespace there needs to be after printing the score info
System.out.print("Score: " + Score.get() + " Turns: " + Turns.get());
for (int i = 0; i < panewidth -17 - Score.length() - Turns.length(); i++){
System.out.print(WhitespaceChar);
}
System.out.print(BorderChar);
System.out.println("");
//prints the message
for (int i = 0; i < lines; i++){
System.out.print(BorderChar);
System.out.print(MessageParts[i]);
System.out.print(BorderChar);
System.out.println("");
}
}
}
StatHolder Class:
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package chrismadeagame;
/**
*
* @author 570694
*/
public class StatHolder{
//Generic object for holding a single integer
private int stat;
//Constructor
public StatHolder(int newStat){
stat = newStat;
}
public StatHolder(){
stat = 0;
}
//Methods
public void set(int stat){};
public int get(){return stat;};
public int length(){
return String.valueOf(stat).length();
}
};
Stack Trace:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 78
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1907)
at chrismadeagame.ChrisMadeaGame.display(ChrisMadeaGame.java:50)
at chrismadeagame.ChrisMadeaGame.main(ChrisMadeaGame.java:25)
Java Result: 1
(panewidth-2)is not negative.