More efficient way to check neighbours in a two-dimensional array in Java

Question

Hey all, for a few of my college assignments I\'ve found the need to check neighbouring cells in 2-dimensional arrays (grids). The solution I\'ve used is a bit of a hack usi

Answer 1

How about this:

private static void printNeighbours(int row, int col, int[][] Data, int rowLen, int colLen)
{
    for(int nextR=row-1; nextR<=row+1; nextR++)
    {
        if(nextR<0 || nextR>=rowLen)
            continue;  //row out of bound
        for(int nextC=col-1; nextC<=col+1; nextC++)
        {
            if(nextC<0 || nextC>=colLen)
                continue;  //col out of bound
            if(nextR==row && nextC==col)
                continue;    //current cell
            System.out.println(Data[nextR][nextC]);
        }
    }
}