Java™ for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 7. Arrays and ArrayLists

Begin at the beginning, ... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

—Lewis Carroll

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.

—Isaiah 30:8

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

—Confucius

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To use arrays to store data in and retrieve data from lists and tables of values.

• To declare arrays, initialize arrays and refer to individual elements of arrays.

• To iterate through arrays with the enhanced for statement.

• To pass arrays to methods.

• To declare and manipulate multidimensional arrays.

• To use variable-length argument lists.

• To read command-line arguments into a program.

• To perform common array manipulations with the ...