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Name

[] (array access)

Description

The array access operator is used to specify a location within an array. The data at this location can be defined with the syntax array[element] = value and read with the syntax value = array[element] as shown in the above example.

Examples

int[] numbers = new int[3]; 
numbers[0] = 90; 
numbers[1] = 150; 
numbers[2] = 30; 
int a = numbers[0] + numbers[1]; // Sets variable 'a' to 240 
int b = numbers[1] + numbers[2]; // Sets variable 'b' to 180

Syntax

datatype[]
array[element]

Parameters

datatypeany primitive or compound datatype, including user-defined classes
arrayany valid variable name
elementint: must not exceed the length of the array minus 1

Array

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