I'm Java beginner, I have taken piece of code from online and trying the program on permutation. Im getting error as
Exception in thread "main"java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1.
Can anybody help to resolve this problem. Thank you.
// Permute.java -- A class generating all permutations
import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
public class Permute implements Iterator {
private final int size;
private final Object [] elements; // copy of original 0 .. size-1
private final Object ar; // array for output, 0 .. size-1
private final int [] permutation; // perm of nums 1..size, perm[0]=0
private boolean next = true;
// int[], double[] array won't work :-(
public Permute (Object [] e) {
size = e.length;
elements = new Object [size]; // not suitable for primitives
System.arraycopy (e, 0, elements, 0, size);
ar = Array.newInstance (e.getClass().getComponentType(), size);
System.arraycopy (e, 0, ar, 0, size);
permutation = new int [size+1];
for (int i=0; i<size+1; i++) {
permutation [i]=i;
}
}
private void formNextPermutation () {
for (int i=0; i<size; i++) {
// i+1 because perm[0] always = 0
// perm[]-1 because the numbers 1..size are being permuted
Array.set (ar, i, elements[permutation[i+1]-1]);
}
}
public boolean hasNext() {
return next;
}
public void remove() throws UnsupportedOperationException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
private void swap (final int i, final int j) {
final int x = permutation[i];
permutation[i] = permutation [j];
permutation[j] = x;
}
// does not throw NoSuchElement; it wraps around!
public Object next() throws NoSuchElementException {
formNextPermutation (); // copy original elements
int i = size-1;
while (permutation[i]>permutation[i+1])
i--;
if (i==0) {
next = false;
for (int j=0; j<size+1; j++) {
permutation [j]=j;
}
return ar;
}
int j = size;
while (permutation[i]>permutation[j]) j--;
swap (i,j);
int r = size;
int s = i+1;
while (r>s) { swap(r,s); r--; s++; }
return ar;
}
public String toString () {
final int n = Array.getLength(ar);
final StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer ("[");
for (int j=0; j<n; j++) {
sb.append (Array.get(ar,j).toString());
if (j<n-1) sb.append (",");
}
sb.append("]");
return new String (sb);
}
public static void main (String [] args) {
for (Iterator i = new Permute(args); i.hasNext(); ) {
final String [] a = (String []) i.next();
System.out.println (i);
}
}
}
