Arrays In Java With Example

The array is a data structure provided by Java which holds elements of the same data type with a fixed size.

An array can hold elements/ values of the same data type, an example being we can create an array that can store 100 elements of type either int/String/char etc.. We can not have array hold multiple datatypes like shown below.

Example 1: [1,2,3,4,5] | [‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’] (correct)
Example 2: [1, ‘b’,3,’c’] (in correct)

Array Declaration

dataType arrayName[] = new dataType[size];
OR
datatType arrayName[] = [value1, value2, value3];

dataType can be any data types like int, char, float, double, String, etc.. or can be a user-defined data type like a User object.

Example:

int intArray[] = new int[10];

In the above declaration, we declared an int array of size 10, which means it can hold 10 int values. similarly, the below declaration holds 50 char values.

char charArray[] = new char[50];

Indexing

In an array, the index starts with 0 (zero), for example, let’s take the array

int[] a = {4,3,2,1};

a[0] returns the first element in the array i.e 4. similarly a[1] would return the second 3 and a[2] would return the third element 2.

Code Example

class ArrayExample {
    public static void main(String [] args) {
              int[] num = new int[5];
              num[0] = 4;
              num[1] = 5;
              num[2] = 7;
              num[3] = 9;
              num[4] = 3;
              
             for(int i= 0; i<num.length; i++) {
                System.out.println("Array element at index "+i+" = "+num[i]);
            }
        }
}

The resultant output for the above example would be

Array element at index 0 = 4
Array element at index 1 = 5
Array element at index 2 = 7
Array element at index 3 = 9
Array element at index 4 = 3

Here is the video explanation of an Array in Java.

Happy Coding!…