Solved Null Pointer Exception

Hey guys, so I'm working on a plugin that works very similarly to an economy plugin, and I was wondering how I would check if a player has an account. What I do is I create a file that stores all the account info like <playername>.account: (their amount) but when I check to see if they have an account I use :

Code:

if (settings.getAccounts().get(pname) != null) {
 
}

but it doesn't work. It passes an NPE even though I check to see if it's null.

 

Well, this means that either settings, the value returned from getAccounts(), or pname is null. Check each of those and make appropriate changes.

 

welll I know that the .get(pname) is null but I thought that was covered with the != null check

 

Check the other values.

 

ok thanks, my .getAccounts() was null. Thank you