Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

7. Arrays

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

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

—Lewis Carroll

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: What arrays are. 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 use the enhanced for statement to iterate through arrays. To pass arrays to methods. To declare and manipulate multidimensional arrays. To write methods that use variable-length argument lists. ...