Section-8

Java Arrays

Eng. Abdirisak Abdalla

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Department of computer science
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Java Arrays
 An array is a collection of similar data types.
 Array is a container object that hold values of
homogeneous type.
 It is also known as static data structure because size
of an array must be specified at the time of its
declaration.
 Array starts from zero index and goes to n-1 where
n is length of the array.
 In Java, array is treated as an object and stores
into heap memory. It allows to store primitive
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Cont..
 Advantages
 Code Optimization: It makes the code optimized,
we can retrieve or sort the data efficiently.
 Random access: We can get any data located at
an index position.
 Disadvantages
 Size Limit: We can store only the fixed size of
elements in the array.

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Features of Array
 It is always indexed. Index begins from 0.
 It is a collection of similar data types.
 It occupies a contiguous memory location.
 It allows to access elements randomly.

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Types of Array in java
 There are two types of array.
 Single Dimensional Array
 Multidimensional Array

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Single Dimensional Array
 A single dimensional array in Java is an array that
holds a sequence of elements, all of the same
type, accessed through an index.
 For instance, if we create an array to store integer data
type values, all elements of the array must be integers,
and they are accessed using their index positions.

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Syntax to Declare an Array in Java
 dataType[] arr; (or)
 dataType arr[];
 Instantiation of an Array in java
 arry1 RefVar=new datatype[size];

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Example of Java Array
 class Testarray{
 public static void main(String args[]){
 int a[]=new int[5];
 a[0]=10;
 a[1]=20; a[2]=70; a[3]=40; a[4]=50;
 for(int i=0;i<a.length;i++)
 System.out.println(a[i]); }}
 Note:-To find the length of an array, we can use length
property of array object like: array_name.length.
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Declaration, Instantiation and Initialization of Java Array
 We can declare, instantiate and initialize the java
array together by:int a[]={33,3,4,5};
 Example:
 class Testarray1{
 public static void main(String args[]){
 int a[]={33,3,4,5};
 for(int i=0;i<a.length;i++)
 System.out.println(a[i]); }}

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Passing Array to a Method in Java
 We can pass the java array to method so that we
can reuse the same logic on any array.

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Returning Array from the Method
 class TestReturnArray{
 static int[] get(){
 return new int[]{10,30,50,90,60}; }
 public static void main(String args[]){
 int arr[]=get();
 for(int i=0;i<arr.length;i++)
 System.out.println(arr[i]); }}

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ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
 The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) throws an
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if length of the
array is negative, equal to the array size or greater
than the array size while traversing the array.
 public class TestArrayException{
 public static void main(String args[]){
 int arr[]={50,60,70,80};
 for(int i=0;i<=arr.length;i++){
 System.out.println(arr[i]); } }}
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Multi-Dimensional Array
 A multi-dimensional array is very much similar to a
single dimensional array.
 It can have multiple rows and multiple columns
unlike single dimensional array, which can have only
one row index.
 It represent data into tabular form in which data is
stored into row and columns.

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Multi-Dimensional Array Declaration & Initialization
 datatype[ ][ ] arrayName;
 Initialization of Array
 datatype[ ][ ] arrayName = new
int[no_of_rows][no_of_columns];

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Example:
 class Testarray3{
 public static void main(String args[]){
 int arr[][]={{1,2,3},{2,4,5},{4,4,5}};
 //printing 2D array
 for(int i=0;i<3;i++){
 for(int j=0;j<3;j++){
 System.out.print(arr[i][j]+" ");
 }
 System.out.println();
 }
 }}
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Any Question?

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Thank You

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