Question

in programming there is often such tasks walk through in multi dimensional array (for simplify let take two dimensional) i need indexes of elements in two dimensional array like
left to right bottom to up and vice versa and so on please give me a few examples

Answer 1

The length of an array arr, in Java, is always arr.length. In Java, multidimensional arrays are nothing but array of arrays, so you can successively take the .length of any “sub-arrays”.

    int[][] m = {
        { 1, 2, 3, },
        { 4, 5, },
        { 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 },
    };
    for (int i = 0; i < m.length; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < m[i].length; j++) {
            System.out.printf("m[%d][%d] = %d%n", i, j, m[i][j]);
        }
    }

The above prints:

m[0][0] = 1
m[0][1] = 2
m[0][2] = 3
m[1][0] = 4
m[1][1] = 5
m[2][0] = 6
m[2][1] = 7
m[2][2] = 8
m[2][3] = 9
m[2][4] = 10

To represent matrices, it’s best to attach to the data structure (arrays or not) two indices M and N, which is the dimension of the matrix, and iterate on indices in terms of M and N instead of array .length. This higher abstraction would lead to better readability.

See also

• Java Tutorials/Arrays