Linked list remove method???

hi i have made a remove method in a publication contaqiner class which links to the publicationmain.The problem is that when i run the program and try to delete a publication i get the message
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index:1, Size:1 at java.util.LinkedList.entry<LinkedList.java:348>
java.util.LinkedList.remove<LinkedList.java:338>
PublicationContainer.remove<publicationcontainer.java>
publicationmain.main<publicationmain.java>"
What does this mean?how do i fix it so my delete method workks?can ssomeone please show me in my code???thanxs
//this is in the publication container
public void remove(int PubID)
PubList.remove(PubID);
//this is in the publicationmain class
System.out.println ("Enter Publication ID:");
PubID = Keyboard.readInt();
pubdatabase.remove (PubID);

The remove(int index) method that you are calling will try and remove the item at the index you specify.
As the index starts at zero, if you want to remove the first element then you have to call remove(0). Calling remove(1) is beyound the possible indexes in the list, so you will get the exception thrown.
HTH
Chris
hi i have made a remove method in a publication
contaqiner class which links to the
publicationmain.The problem is that when i run the
program and try to delete a publication i get the
message
"Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index:1, Size:1
at java.util.LinkedList.entry<LinkedList.java:348>
java.util.LinkedList.remove<LinkedList.java:338>
PublicationContainer.remove<publicationcontainer.java>
publicationmain.main<publicationmain.java>"
What does this mean?how do i fix it so my delete
method workks?can ssomeone please show me in my
code???thanxs
//this is in the publication container
public void remove(int PubID)
PubList.remove(PubID);
//this is in the publicationmain class
System.out.println ("Enter Publication ID:");
PubID = Keyboard.readInt();
pubdatabase.remove (PubID);

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