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    CMP-2123-Object Oriented

    Programming
    Lecture 5
    By
    Muhammad Noman
    Java -Arrays
    • Java provides a data structure, the array, which stores a fixed-size
    sequential collection of elements of the same type. An array is used
    to store a collection of data, but it is often more useful to think of an
    array as a collection of variables of the sametype.
    • Instead of declaring individual variables, such as number0, number1,
    ..., and number99, you declare one array variable such as numbers
    and use numbers[0], numbers[1], and ..., numbers[99] to represent
    individual variables.

    2
    Declaring Array Variables
    • To use an array in a program, you must declare a variable to reference
    the array, and you must specify the type of array the variable can
    reference.

    3
    Syntax for declaring an array variable

    4
    Example

    5
    Creating Arrays
    • You can create an array by using the new operator with the following
    syntax

    arrayRefVar = new dataType[arraySize];


    • The above statement does two things −
    • It creates an array using new dataType[arraySize].
    • It assigns the reference of the newly created array to the variable arrayRefVar.
    • Declaring an array variable, creating an array, and assigning the
    reference of the array to the variable can be combined in one
    statement, as shown in next slide
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    • The array elements are accessed through the index. Array indices are
    0-based; that is, they start from 0 to arrayRefVar.length-1.

    8
    Example

    9
    Processing Arrays
    • When processing array elements, we often use either for loop
    or foreach loop because all of the elements in an array are of the
    same type and the size of the array isknown.

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    The foreach Loops
    • JDK1.5 introduced a new for loop known as foreach loop or
    enhanced for loop, which enables you to traverse thecomplete array
    sequentially without using an index variable.

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    Passing Arrays to Methods
    • Just as you can pass primitive type values to methods, you can also
    pass arrays to methods

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    • You can invoke it by passing an array. For example, the following
    statement invokes the printArray method to display 3, 1, 2, 6, 4, and 2
    −

    18
    Returning an Array from aMethod
    • A method may also return an array.

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    Thank You

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