Android Array String

Hi guys if i try to assign the string to string Array i am getting NULL POINTER EXCEPTION.. Pls give me a solution..

Here is my code and i am getting null pointer in this line thumbs[j]=title; as code Follows...

for (int i = 0; i < items.getLength(); i++) {
        Node item = items.item(i);
        NodeList properties = item.getChildNodes();
        for (int j = 0; j < properties.getLength(); j++) {
            Node property = properties.item(j);
            String name = property.getNodeName();
            if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("title")) {
                try{
                    property.normalize();
                    Spanned title2 = Html.fromHtml(property.getFirstChild().getNodeValue().replaceAll("\\<.*?>", ""));
                    title =  title2.toString();  
                }catch(Exception e){
                     Log.v("Exception",""+开发者_JAVA技巧e);
                }
                thumbs[j]=title;
            }
        }
    }

My guess is that the thumbs[] hasn't been initialized doing something like:

String [] thumbs = new String [properties.getLength()];

Though it's hard to say - your code doesn't show your declaration of this array.

The only possibility is that thumbs is null. It isn't a compile error if you don't initialize it. Don't rely on the IDE to tell you if something initialized prove it to yourself by examining your code, or print out the value of thumbs before you use it every time.

The only other exception possibilities at that line are ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if j > thumbs.length-1. But again, that's not a NPE. If title was null, that's fine and not an exception.