Program for Blackjack-initialize the deck

[amestrada113]

public Deck()
    { 
        cards=new Card[52]; 
        String [] suits = {"spades", "hearts", "clubs", "diamonds"}; 
        int [] values = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13}; 
        for (int j=0; j<values.length; j++)
        {
            for (int i=0; i<suits.length; i++)
            {
                cards [j*4+i] = new Card (values[j], suits[i]); 
            }
        }//close for loop  
    }//close method 

Hi! I am doing a project for a class that has me write a program to play Blackjack. I have all of the coding done but when I run the program I only Aces for my values while I do get different suits. Can anyone help me and please tell me why this code doesn't work to instantiate a deck of cards? When I try to print out what this method gives me I get: [LCard;@1aa8c488

[Rabbit]

Please use code tags when posting code or formatted data.

The problem could be with the Card function. But I can't be sure, there's no code for it.

[chaarmann]

what this method gives me I get: [LCard;@1aa8c488

First, cards is an array. So you should print out cards[0], cards[1] etc. or just use:

System.out.println(Arrays.asList(Arrays.asList(cards)));

I hope you have added a toString method to your Card-class which prints the card inner class variables (suit and value), so that you can see them printed out with the command above.