java - How to access a array in a instance -

i making card game , have following section of code (a small excerpt):

hand[] hands;  hands = new hand[t];  (i = 1; > t; i++) {     hands[i] = new hand(); }

public class hand {      hand() {         card[] hand;          hand = new card[52];     } }

how access array in hand object?

for example, let's had instance of hand class called hand1, how access array hand in hand1 object?

doing hand1.hand[x] did not work.

  hand() {     card[] hand;      hand = new card[52]; }

card[] hand local variable you're declaring inside hand() constructor. if want use variable should declare globally so:

private card[] hand;   hand() {     hand = new card[52]; }

and have getter & setter methods retrieve private variable (this called 'encapsulation'). don't think there's need those

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