How to Take Array Input in Java?

In Java, there are two simple ways to take array input from the user. You may utilize loops and the “Scanner class” or “BufferedReader and InputStreamReader class” to accept an array input from the user.

Let’s cover both these methods in detail with examples.

There is no direct method to take array input in Java from the user. In this article, we will discuss two methods to take array input in Java. But first, let’s briefly discuss arrays in Java and how they differ from other programming languages.

Array in Java is a group of like-typed variables referred to by a common name. Arrays in Java work differently than they do in C/C++. Some important points about Java arrays are:

• Arrays are dynamically allocated.
• Arrays are stored in contiguous memory [consecutive memory locations].
• Since arrays are objects in Java, we can find their length using the object property length. This is different from C/C++, where we find length using sizeof.
• A Java array variable can also be declared like other variables with [] after the data type.
• The variables in the array are ordered, and each has an index beginning with 0.

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