Question

I created a multidimensional array called current_map.

I am trying to access current_map:

current_map[0][1]

However I receive the error:

error: array required, but String found

Here is my code for your viewing pleasure

import java.util.*;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class TestApp {
    private ArrayList<String[]> current_map = new ArrayList<String[]>();
    public TestApp() {
        current_map.add(new String[] { "0","0","0" });
        current_map.add(new String[] { "0","Q","0" });
        current_map.add(new String[] { "0","0","0" });
    }
    public String getValue(int X,int Y){
        String[] obj_map = current_map.toArray(new String[current_map.size()]);
        return obj_map[X][Y]; // for example, getValue(2,2), should give "Q"
    }
}

How can I stop this issue?

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

import java.util.*;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class TestApp {
    private ArrayList<String[]> current_map = new ArrayList<String[]>();
    public TestApp() {
        current_map.add(new String[] { "0","0","0" });
        current_map.add(new String[] { "0","Q","0" });
        current_map.add(new String[] { "0","0","0" });
    }
    public String getValue(int X,int Y){
        return current_map.get(Y)[X]; // for example, getValue(2,2), should give "Q"
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
      TestApp ta = new TestApp();
      System.out.println(ta.getValue(1, 1));
    }

}

Note that in Java array indexes are 0-based, so 2nd row, 2nd column is represented with (1, 1), not (2, 2).

Hope this helps.