Question

I have a two dimensional array that I need to rotate 90 degrees clockwise, however I keep getting arrayindexoutofbounds…

public int[][] rotateArray(int[][] arr) {
    // first change the dimensions vertical length
    // for horizontal length and vice versa
    int[][] newArray = new int[arr[0].length][arr.length];

    // invert values 90 degrees clockwise by starting
    // from button of array to top and from left to right
    int ii = 0;
    int jj = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < arr[0].length; i++) {
        for (int j = arr.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            newArray[ii][jj] = arr[i][j];
            jj++;
        }
        ii++;
    }
    return newArray;
}

Answer 1

I don’t understand your loops’ logic — shouldn’t it be

for (int i = 0; i < arr[0].length; i++) {
    for (int j = arr.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
        newArray[i][j] = arr[j][i];
    }
}

Net of whether each index goes up, like i here, or down, like j here (and of whether either or both need to be "flipped" in the assignment, e.g using arr.length-1-j in lieu of plain j on one side of the = in the assignment;-), since arr dimensions are arr.length by arr[0].length, and vice versa for newArray, it seems to me that the first index on arr (second on newArray) must be the one spanning the range from 0 to arr.length-1 included, and the other range for the other index.

This is a kind of "basic dimensional analysis" (except that "dimension" is used in a different sense than normally goes with "dimensional analysis" which refers to physical dimensions, i.e., time, mass, length, &c;-). The issue of "flipping" and having each loop go up or down depend on visualizing exactly what you mean and I’m not the greatest "mental visualizer" so I think, in real life, I’d try the various variants of this "axis transposition" until I hit the one that’s meant;-).