Question: Need help java. Null lang pointer exception at lines 113 and 69.... hers my code and put numbers at the particular lines... Thank you P4A2.txt

Need help java. Null lang pointer exception at lines 113 and 69.... hers my code and put numbers at the particular lines... Thank you

P4A2.txt is just a list of these words, pig, dog, cat

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class P4A2

{

//necessary declarations

static String word[]=new String[200];

static String hint[]=new String[200];

static int correctGuesses=0, numOfWords=0;

static boolean correctGuess=false;

static boolean finished=false;

static StringBuilder underscore,secretWord;

static String slashes="";

//game starting point

public static void main(String arg[])

{

String contsnue="Y";

underscore=new StringBuilder("");

Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);

//copy secret words into array

System.out.println("**Welcome to Hack the bomb game**");

String contnue = new String(); //loop

while(contnue!="n")

{

//select a random secret word

int rdnum=selectRandomWord();

69 secretWord=new StringBuilder(word[rdnum]);

//print underscores

System.out.println("The secret word");

for(int i=0;i

underscore.append('_');

System.out.println(underscore);

System.out.println("The secret word length -" +underscore.length());

System.out.println("The hint for the secret word-" +hint[rdnum]);

while(true)

{

System.out.println("Guess a letter");

char userGuess=(input.next()).charAt(0);

if(isGuessed(userGuess))

{

if(finished)//if the finished flag is true, game is over

{

System.out.println("Congrats You won!");

break;

}

else

{

113 System.out.println("You own the round! Try next");

}

}

else

{

//track wrong guesses

slashes+="\\";

if(slashes.length()==1)

System.out.println("Bomb color =Blue");

if(slashes.length()==2)

System.out.println("Bomb color =green");

if(slashes.length()==3)

System.out.println("Bomb color =purple");

if(slashes.length()==4)

System.out.println("Bomb color =orange");

if(slashes.length()==5)

System.out.println("Bomb color =red");

if(slashes.length()==6)

{

System.out.println("Bomb color =yellow");

System.out.println("BOOM!!!");

break;

}

}

}

//make ready for another game

underscore.delete(0, underscore.length());

correctGuesses=0;

correctGuess=false;

finished=false;

slashes="";

System.out.println("Do you want to play again(y/n): ");

contnue=input.next();

if(contnue.charAt(0)=='n')

{

System.out.println("Thank you...!");

System.exit(0);

}

}

}

//returns true if the user guess is correct. also identifies whether the game is over or not

public static boolean isGuessed(char g)

{

String guess=Character.toString(g);

int index=secretWord.indexOf(guess);

if(index!=-1)

{

secretWord.replace(index,index+1,"_");

underscore.replace(index,index+ 1,Character.toString(g));//update underscores

System.out.println("The secret word: " +underscore);//print underscore

correctGuesses++; //keep track number of correct guesses

if(correctGuesses==secretWord.length()) //keep track whether the game is over

finished=true;

return true;

}

System.out.println("The secret word: "+underscore);//print underscore

return false;

}

//copies all the words from text file to String array

public static void copyWords()

{

BufferedReader br;

try

{

String sCurrentLine;

String curLines[];

br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("P4A2.txt"));

while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null)

{

curLines=sCurrentLine.split("\t");

word[ numOfWords]=curLines[0];

numOfWords++;

}

}

catch (IOException e)

{

e.printStackTrace();

}

}//end of words

//randomly selects a word

public static int selectRandomWord()

{

int randomNum = (int)(Math.random()*numOfWords);

return randomNum;

}//end of

}//end of ColorBomb game

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