Array not printing properly when using the Arrays.toString

Question

I am new to Java and was wondering what I did wrong. I am building a simple board game, but for some reason the array prints as an array of "Ljava.lang.String;@4bec1f0c". I've read some similar questions to this problem but for some reason, the solutions that I have found does not work in my code.

Help is appreciated.

for(int row = 0; row < gameBoard.length; row++)
          {
              for(int col = 0; col < gameBoard[row].length; col++)
              {                    
                    gameBoard[row][col] = "- ";
              }
          }
System.out.print(Arrays.toString(gameBoard));

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '20 at 19:47

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if you want to every object be visible in a 2-dimension array, use this method:

System.out.print(Arrays.deepToString(gameBoard));

Arrays.toString is working in single dimension arrays.

more data and examples: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/arrays-deeptostring-in-java-with-example/

answered Oct 27 '20 at 19:47

Majid Roustaei

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would there be a way to print the array without the brackets and commas? – Tyron Corpuz Oct 27 '20 at 19:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '20 at 19:47

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Arrays.toString does the right thing for one-dimensional arrays, but won't help much on two-dimensional arrays.

Use Arrays.deepToString instead.

answered Oct 27 '20 at 19:47

Louis Wasserman

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would there be a way to print the array without the brackets and commas? – Tyron Corpuz Oct 27 '20 at 19:54

Array not printing properly when using the Arrays.toString

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