Question

I am attempting to assign a value to an array object like this:

public class Players {
    String Name;
}

Players[] player = new Players[10];
String name = Mike;
player[1].Name = name;

I am getting a NullPointerException and am not sure why. What could be causing this?

Answer 1

This is because creating a new array does not create individual objects inside the array; you should be creating them separately, e.g. in a loop.

Players[] player = new Players[10];
for (int i = 0 ; i != player.length ; i++) {
    player[i] = new Players();
}