Java: Multidimensional Array Tables

Creating a Multidimensional array table is actually fairly difficult, and you might find it quite hard.
Here is the code, we will go through it after:

public class Main {
     public static void Display(int Array[][]){

        for(int row=0;row<Array.length;row++){

            for(int column=0;column<Array[row].length;column++){

                System.out.print(Array[row][column] + "\t");
            }
            System.out.println();
        }

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int ArrayOne[][]={{32, 43, 65, 2, 23}, {54, 39, 77, 83}};
        System.out.println("This is the array:");
        Display(ArrayOne);
    }

}

First I would like to explain this:

public static void Display(int Array[][]){

This is a simple function (like the class member functions) but its in the main class, it takes a multidimensional array as its parameters. We make it public and static so we can refer to it via our main function.

for(int row=0;row<Array.length;row++){

The above line of code simple starts a for loop, the loop continues to loop until the row number (represented by variable "row") is higher than the array length (the number of rows).

for(int column=0;column<Array[row].length;column++){

The above line is another for loop, this one is for the columns. It continues to loop while there is columns("column<Array[row].length" is a little trick to check the one we are on).

System.out.print(Array[row][column] + "\t");

This simply prints out the row and column specified. We use print instead of println as we want multiple values on one line.

System.out.println();

The above simple starts a new line.




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