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Fouroh3
Fouroh3

Reputation: 542

How to make an array with its items as another array

For example I'm making a hangman program and for the words I want to make an array called words and the items in words are the letters what ever word

This is what I thought you could do:

String[] words =  new String [15];
words[1] = String[] MILK = {"M","I","L","K"};
words[2] = String[] CLOTH = {"C","L","O","T","H"};

Upvotes: 1

Views: 108

Answers (4)

Hans Hansen
Hans Hansen

Reputation: 55

What you will be using is a two dimensional array.

Think of it as a matrix that will look something like this

[][][][]
[][][][]
[][][][]
[][][][]

Where each box contains a letter.

You initialize by using the following code 

String[][] words =  new String [x][y];

Where x is the total number of words (rows) and y is the total number of letters (columns).

Upvotes: 1

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 5654

I think you are looking for:

String[][] words =  new String [15][];
String[] milk = words[0] = new String[] {"M","I","L","K"};
String[] cloth = words[1] = new String[] {"C","L","O","T","H"};

Upvotes: 3

CHess
CHess

Reputation: 422

What you want is called a multidimensional array. These are basically arrays inside of arrays.

Your code should be as follows:

String[][] words =  new String [15][];
words[1] = new String[] {"M","I","L","K"};
words[2] = new String[] {"C","L","O","T","H"};

For documentation on it, see this website

Upvotes: 3

PSR
PSR

Reputation: 40318

You can use array of arrays

String[][] arrays = new String[][] { array1, array2,  array53};

Upvotes: 6

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