Jul 29, 2009 · The third way of initializing is useful when you declare an array first and then initialize it, pass an array as a function argument, or return an array. The explicit type is required.

This is because if you write int a[]=new int[3] then by default, in Java all the values of array i.e. a[0], a[1] and a[2] are initialized to 0! Regarding the local variable hiding a field, post your entire code for us to …

Dec 21, 2009 · Notice the difference between the two declarations. When assigning a new array to a declared variable, new must be used. Even if you correct the syntax, accessing data[10] is still …

But in Java, how can I initialize all the elements to a specific value? Whenever we write int[] array = new int[10], this simply initializes an array of size 10 having all elements set to 0, but I just want to …

An array initializer creates an array and provides initial values for all its components. and this is irrespective of whether the array is an instance variable or local variable or class variable.

Read user input into a variable and use its value to initialize the array. myArray = new int[someVarSetEarlier] if you want to get the size in advance or use a List if you want the length of …

For type int, the default value is zero, that is, 0. If you want to initialize an one-dimensional array to a different value, you can use java.util.Arrays.fill () (which will of course use a loop internally).

Nov 22, 2012 · And each index on array object holds a reference to those memory location in sequence. Then the array reference points to that array. So, since memory for 5 integer values are allocated on …

Here int represents integer type elements stored into the array and the array name is 'marks'. int is the datatype for all the elements represented inside the " {" and "}" braces because an array is a …

When declaring an array, it's best practice to place the brackets directly after the type, i.e. int[] array.