Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

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Putting the size of the

array inside the brackets in

the array declaration will

generate a compiler error.

COMMON ERROR

TRAP

466 CHAPTER 8 Single-Dimensional Arrays

Similarly, this statement declares an array to hold the answers to a

true/false test:

boolean [ ] answers; // each element is a boolean value

Using our Auto class from Chapter 7, this statement declares an array to

hold Auto objects:

Auto [ ] cars; // each element is an Auto object reference

You can declare multiple arrays of the same data type in one statement by

inserting a comma after each array name, using this syntax:

datatype [ ] arrayName1, arrayName2;

For example, the following statement ...