Looping through the elements in an array backwards [duplicate]

Answer 1

The problem here is this piece of code: myArray.length. In Java, as in most other languages, Data structures are 0 based, so the last element has an index of structure.length - 1 (and the first being 0). So in your case, you should change your loop as follows:

for(int counter=myArray.length - 1; counter >= 0;counter--){
            System.out.println(myArray[counter]);
        }

Answer 2

Arrays in Java are indexed from 0 to length - 1, not 1 to length, therefore you should be assign your variable accordingly and use the correct comparison operator.

Your loop should look like this:

for (int counter = myArray.length - 1; counter >= 0; counter--) {

Answer 3

You're starting at the wrong index. Do it like this:

for(int counter= myArray.length - 1; counter >= 0;counter--) {

The last index of an array is its length minus 1.

Answer 4

• The first index is 0 and the last index is 7 not 8
• The size of the array is 8

Answer 5

use myArray.length-1

  for(int counter=myArray.length-1; counter >= 0;counter--){
                System.out.println(myArray[counter]);
            }

Answer 6

the counter is starting at the index of myArray.length which is actually counted from 1 instead of 0..

    for(int counter=myArray.length - 1; counter > 0; counter--){