ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Error, Any help would be appreciated.

**Jtrtoday** · 04-09-2012, 02:59 PM

All the code works fine, except in last method. That seems to be where the error is coming from. Any help would be appreciated.
The error I'm getting is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 9

Java Code:

public class Wordish {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		System.out.println("testing elfish:");
		System.out.printf("elfish(\"whiteleaf\") is %b.\n", elfish("whiteleaf"));
		System.out.printf("elfish(\"Java\") is %b.\n\n", elfish("Java"));
		
		System.out.println("testing x_ish:");
		System.out.printf("x_ish(\"left\", \"rightfullness\") is %b.\n", x_ish("left", "rightfullness"));
		System.out.printf("x_ish(\"left\", \"shelf\") is %b.\n\n", x_ish("left", "shelf"));
		
		String[] s = {"this", "stressful", "time", "on", "the","twelfth", "felt", "strangely", "uneventful"};
		System.out.println("testing keep_leftish:");
		System.out.printf("keep_leftish(s) returns %s.\n", keep_leftish(s));
	}
	
// a normal method to check whether word contains the letters of e, l, and f.
	public static boolean elfish(String word) {
		String elf = "elf";
		int Total =0;
		
		for(int count=0;count<elf.length();count++){
			
			if (word.indexOf(elf.substring(count,count+1)) != -1){
				Total +=1;
			}
			
		}
		
		if (Total==elf.length())
			return true;
		else
			return false;
	}
	
// checking whether word contains all the letters of a given word x
	public static boolean x_ish(String x, String word) {
		return x_ish_check(x, x.length(), word);
	}
	
// a recursive method to check whether word contains
// all the first n letters of a given word x
	private static boolean x_ish_check(String x, int n, String word) {
		if (n <1)
			return true;
		else if(word.indexOf(x.substring(n-1,n)) != -1){
			return x_ish_check(x.substring(0,n-1),n-1, word);
		}
		else
			return false;
	}
	

// This method finds all the leftish words in the array s
// and returns a string of all the found words concatenated.
	public static String keep_leftish(String[] s) {
		return get_leftish(s, s.length);
	}
	
// recursive method to find all the left like words among the first n words of array s
// and return a string of all the found words concatenated.
	private static String get_leftish(String[] s, int n) {
		boolean True = true;
		String word = s[n];
		
		if (n==0)
			return "";
		else if(True == x_ish("left",word ))
			return s[n] + get_leftish(s,n-1);
		else 
			return "" + get_leftish(s,n-1);
	}
}