Question

I am currently working on a Poker java game exercise, and I get this ugly error which I’m not being able to understand. It must be some kind of syntax error since the compiler throws 100 of those. But I just don’t know where the error is??

import java.util.Random;

public class Poker
{
    private Card[] deck;
    private Card[] hand;
    private int currentCard;
    private int numbers[], triples, couples;
    private String faces[], suits[];

    private boolean flushOnHand, fourOfAKind, isStraight;
    private static final int NUMBER_OF_CARDS = 52;

    private static final Random randomNumbers = new Random();

    Poker()
    {
        faces = { "Ace", "Deuce", "Three", "Four", "Five",
            "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", "Jack", "Queen", "King"};
        suits = { "Hearts", "Diamonds", "Clubs", "Spades" };

        numbers = new int[ 13 ];

        deck = new Card[ NUMBER_OF_CARDS ];

        triples = 0; // right here's where the compiler starts complaining
        couples = 0;
            ...

though I am not able to spot any syntax error?

Btw, the Card is a separate class.

Answer 1

There’s no reason why the variable triples can’t be assigned where you are indicating the error.

However, you need to assign the String arrays like so:

faces = new String[] { "Ace", "Deuce", "Three", "Four", "Five",
         "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", "Jack", "Queen", "King"};
suits = new String[] { "Hearts", "Diamonds", "Clubs", "Spades" };