An elegant way of initialising an empty String array in Java

Question

In the current code base that I\'m working on I find myself needing to initialise many empty String[] of different lengths.

As of now, they are always initialised in

Answer 1

Using Arrays.fill:

String[] a = new String[9];
Arrays.fill(a, "");

Answer 2

You can use Arrays.fill method: -

Arrays.fill(a, "");