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    copied!<p>I am making a hangman game for my ap computer science class and could not seem to figure out how to fix my problem with the strings. I am getting an out of bounds index error. it says</p> <blockquote> <p>java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 7 </p> </blockquote> <p>occurring here: </p> <pre><code>if(theGuess.equals(wordToGuess.substring(i,i+1))) </code></pre> <p>Here is the program code if it is any help.</p> <pre><code>import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class Hangman extends BasicGame { private final String WORDCHOICES= "apple"+"great"+"zebra"+"mouse"+"chick"+"class"+"abhor"+"abide" +"fuzzy"+"brute"+"blunt"+"comic"+"cater"+"stone"+"chaos"+"dufus"+"earth"+"decal"+"happy"+"heist" +"idler"+"lions"+"hates"+"idols"+"lasso"+"lives"+"lisps"+"major"+"mound"+"mango"+"meter"+"mercy" +"marry"+"pilot"+"plots"+"pants"+"overt"+"quack"+"paver"+"polls"+"scorn"+"sapid"+"sails"+"rowdy" +"seeks"+"leech"+"seats"+"spade"+"shoes"+"slurp"; private String wordToGuess; private java.util.Random randy; private int wordNum; private int numCorrect=0; private String[] correctLetters= new String[]{"","","","",""}; HangDraw artist= new HangDraw(); public Hangman() { super(); randy= new java.util.Random(); for(int i = 0; i&lt;5;i++) correctLetters[i]=null; wordNum=0; numCorrect=0; artist.setUp(); } public void guess() { wordNum= 5*randy.nextInt(50); numCorrect=0; int wrong=0; String userGuess=""; int partsDrawn=0; wordToGuess=WORDCHOICES.substring(wordNum,wordNum+5)+" "; while(numCorrect&lt;5&amp;&amp; partsDrawn&lt;5) { userGuess= JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Guess a letter, so far you have: "+ correctLetters[0]+ correctLetters[1]+correctLetters[2]+correctLetters[3]+correctLetters[4]); if(checkLetter(userGuess)) { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Correct Guess"); //print the letter } else { //draw the part of the body JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"incorrect"); partsDrawn++; artist.drawParts(partsDrawn); } } if(partsDrawn==5) { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "failed to guess, the word is: "+wordToGuess); } else { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "correct, the word was: "+ wordToGuess); } } private boolean checkLetter(String theGuess) { boolean matches=false; for(int i=0;i&lt;wordToGuess.length();i++) { if(theGuess.equals(wordToGuess.substring(i,i+1))) { correctLetters[i]=theGuess; matches=true; numCorrect++; } } return matches; } } </code></pre> <p>Thank you for any help you provide</p>
 

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