I am trying to figure out "what 5-digit number when multiplied by 4 gives you its reverse?" using this code but I get error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:
String index out of range: 5 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658) at
Digits.main(Digits.java:15)
I would like to figure out (have someone explain) why this is happening. I would like to keep my charAt in my code and not use StringBuilder (StringBuilder.reverse())
if that is possible.
public class Digits{
public static void main(String[] args) {
int n = 0;
int b = 0;
String number = "";
String backwards = "";
for (int x = 9999; x <= 99999 ; x++ ) {
n = x;
b = x * 4;
number = Integer.toString(n);
backwards = Integer.toString(b);
if ( number.charAt(0) == backwards.charAt(4) && number.charAt(1) == backwards.charAt(3)
&& number.charAt(2) == backwards.charAt(2) && number.charAt(3) == backwards.charAt(1)
&& number.charAt(4) == backwards.charAt(0)) {
System.out.println(n);
break;
}
}
Thanks
The code runs without an exception, the code tested is given below:
public class Digits {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int n;
n = 0;
int b;
b = 0;
String number;
number = "";
String backwards;
backwards = "";
for (int x = 9999; x <= 99999; x++) {
n = x;
b = x * 4;
number = Integer.toString(n);
backwards = Integer.toString(b);
if (number.charAt(0) == backwards.charAt(4) && number.charAt(1) == backwards.charAt(3)
&& number.charAt(2) == backwards.charAt(2) && number.charAt(3) == backwards.charAt(1)
&& number.charAt(4) == backwards.charAt(0)) {
System.out.println(n);
break;
}
}
}
}
Ouput of this code is 21978