Prior to Java 8
We could have used Arrays.toString(array) to print one dimensional array and Arrays.deepToString(array) for multi-dimensional arrays.
Java 8
Now we have got the option of Stream and lambda to print the array.
Printing One dimensional Array:
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[] intArray = new int[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
String[] strArray = new String[] {"John", "Mary", "Bob"};
//Prior to Java 8
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(intArray));
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(strArray));
// In Java 8 we have lambda expressions
Arrays.stream(intArray).forEach(System.out::println);
Arrays.stream(strArray).forEach(System.out::println);
}
The output is:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[John, Mary, Bob]
1
2
3
4
5
John
Mary
Bob
Printing Multi-dimensional Array
Just in case we want to print multi-dimensional array we can use Arrays.deepToString(array) as:
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[][] int2DArray = new int[][] { {11, 12}, { 21, 22}, {31, 32, 33} };
String[][] str2DArray = new String[][]{ {"John", "Bravo"} , {"Mary", "Lee"}, {"Bob", "Johnson"} };
//Prior to Java 8
System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(int2DArray));
System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(str2DArray));
// In Java 8 we have lambda expressions
Arrays.stream(int2DArray).flatMapToInt(x -> Arrays.stream(x)).forEach(System.out::println);
Arrays.stream(str2DArray).flatMap(x -> Arrays.stream(x)).forEach(System.out::println);
}
Now the point to observe is that the method Arrays.stream(T[]), which in case of int[] returns us Stream<int[]> and then method flatMapToInt() maps each element of stream with the contents of a mapped stream produced by applying the provided mapping function to each element.
The output is:
[[11, 12], [21, 22], [31, 32, 33]]
[[John, Bravo], [Mary, Lee], [Bob, Johnson]]
11
12
21
22
31
32
33
John
Bravo
Mary
Lee
Bob
Johnson
