How do I print the contents of an array variable?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons Lang 0 Comment

You need to print the contents of an array variable. The long way to it is to user a loop to print each element of the array. To simplify this, you can use the Apache Commons Lang ArrayUtils.toString() method. This method can take any array as a parameter and print out the contents separated by commas and surrounded by curly brackets. When you need to print a specific string when the array is null, you can provide the second string argument to this method.

package org.kodejava.commons.lang;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;

public class ArrayUtilsToString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Print an int array as string.
        int[] numbers = {1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34};
        System.out.println("Numbers = " + ArrayUtils.toString(numbers));

        // Print string array as string.
        String[] grades = {"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"};
        System.out.println("Grades = " + ArrayUtils.toString(grades));

        // Print a multidimensional array as string.
        int[][] matrix = {{0, 1, 2}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 3, 4}};
        System.out.println("Matrix = " + ArrayUtils.toString(matrix));

        // Return "Empty" when the array is null.
        String[] colors = null;
        System.out.println("Colors = " + ArrayUtils.toString(colors, "None"));
    }
}

The output of the code snippet above:

Numbers = {1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34}
Grades = {A,B,C,D,E,F}
Matrix = {{0,1,2},{1,2,3},{2,3,4}}
Colors = None

If you are using the JDK 1.5, or later, you can actually use the java.util.Arrays class to do the same thing as the org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils class does.

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
    <version>3.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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