title: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 1
body: <p>I am making a movie rental program and I need to write an array of Strings into an ArrayList of Movie Objects.  Everything compiles correctly, but when it is run I get a String index out of bounds error.  Here is the code for the methods used:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static void arrayToList(Store store, String[] array)
  {
      String title;
      int copies;
      int index = -1;
      for(int i = 0;i &lt; array.length;i++)
      {
          index = getIndex(array[i]);
          title = array[i].substring(0,index + 1);
          copies = Integer.parseInt(array[i].substring(index+1,array[i].length()));
          store.addMovie(title,copies);//adds movie to arrayList
      }
  }
  
   public static int getIndex(String line)
  {
      boolean found = false;
      int index =0;
      for(int i = 0;i &lt; line.length();i++)
      {
          if(line.charAt(i) == ';')
          {
              index = i;
          }
      }
      return index;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The getIndex() method gets the index of a semicolon inserted between the title and number of copies of the movie so when it is read from an external file the two can be distiguished and then used as parameters to create a Movie object.</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on why I am getting an index out of bounds error?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the complete error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 1
  at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1950)
  at MovieRentals.MovieRunner.arrayToList(MovieRunner.java:158)
  at MovieRentals.MovieRunner.main(MovieRunner.java:32)
  </code></pre>