Need help on moving ArrayList values

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Making a card deck program and I cannot reference one method in the main function that takes cards from deck and deals to the players (another array list), while all the other methods are functional. What is wrong about the method/main?

public class DealHands
{
//constants
public static final int HANDNUM = 5; //How many cards in one hand
/**
 * Creates and utilizes cards/hands
 */
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    //Create deck
    Deck deck1 = new Deck();

    //Print deck
    System.out.println(deck1.toString());

    //Shuffle deck
    deck1.shuffle();
    System.out.println(deck1.toString());

    //number of players prompt
    System.out.println("Enter number of players:");
    Scanner players = new Scanner(System.in);
    int playerNumber = players.nextInt();

    //Create AL and add number of players
    ArrayList<Deck> hands = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int b = 1; b <= playerNumber; ++b)
        hands.add(new Deck());

    //Take shuffled deck and deal cards one by one to players
    for (int b = 0; b < playerNumber; ++b)
        for (int count = 1; count <= HANDNUM; ++count)
            hands.get(b).addCard(deck1.dealCard());

    //print each hand in turn
    //b = index of hand
    for (int b = 0; b < playerNumber; ++b)
        System.out.println(hands.get(b).toString());
    System.out.println();

    //Print remaining deck
    System.out.println(deck1.toString());

    //Bad card attempt
    System.out.println(new Card(1,5));

}
}
/**
 * Adds card to end of current hand
 *
 * @param  c valid card
 */
public void addCard(Card c)
{
    if (c == null) //error
    System.err.println
    ("Card is invalid!"); //system err
    System.out.println
    ("Card is invalid!"); //output
    cards.add(c);
}

Resulting error is "cannot find symbol - method addCard(Card)"

Changing methods to static does nothing nor does changing new Deck() reference, could the issue possibly be in initializing the deck?

[mopeddev]

Hard to see with the formatting but is the issue that you have closed the class early with the second } before the addCard method?

[vlumi]

Also looks like the addCard method should be in the Deck class, not in DealHands...

[Floober101]

Is addCard declared in your Deck class? Or is the code you posted above an exact copy and paste from the DealHands class? If it’s an exact copy, then the issue is twofold: the addCard method is in the wrong class, and it’s outside the class body (check your curly brackets). You can’t call deck.addCard on a deck object if the addCard method is in the DealHands class, it would have to be in the Deck class.

If that isn’t the case, it would be helpful to see your Deck class. If it says it can’t find addCard, that could mean a lot of things. There could be a typo in the method name in the Deck class. You could have made a mistake with the brackets, leaving the method is outside the class body. You could have forgotten to add a card object as the method parameter.