Syntax for creating a two-dimensional array

Question

Consider:

int[][] multD = new int[5][];
multD[0] = new int[10];

Is this how you create a two-dimensional array with 5 rows and 10 columns?<

Answer 1

In Java, a two-dimensional array can be declared as the same as a one-dimensional array. In a one-dimensional array you can write like

  int array[] = new int[5];

where int is a data type, array[] is an array declaration, and new array is an array with its objects with five indexes.

Like that, you can write a two-dimensional array as the following.

  int array[][];
  array = new int[3][4];

Here array is an int data type. I have firstly declared on a one-dimensional array of that types, then a 3 row and 4 column array is created.

In your code

int[][] multD = new int[5][];
multD[0] = new int[10];

means that you have created a two-dimensional array, with five rows. In the first row there are 10 columns. In Java you can select the column size for every row as you desire.