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Discussion Forum : Language Fundamentals - Finding the output (Q.No. 1)
1.
What will be the output of the program?
public class CommandArgsThree 
{
    public static void main(String [] args) 
    {
        String [][] argCopy = new String[2][2];
        int x;
        argCopy[0] = args;
        x = argCopy[0].length;
        for (int y = 0; y < x; y++) 
        {
            System.out.print(" " + argCopy[0][y]);
        }
    }
}

and the command-line invocation is

> java CommandArgsThree 1 2 3

0 0
1 2
0 0 0
1 2 3
Answer: Option
Explanation:
In argCopy[0] = args;, the reference variable argCopy[0], which was referring to an array with two elements, is reassigned to an array (args) with three elements.
Discussion:
36 comments Page 3 of 4.

Lachya S said:   1 decade ago
For me code compile successfully but when I was giving 1 2 3 as an command argument it is throwing error like 1 is not recognised as an internal or externalcommand. what should i do? Please give me solution for that issue.

Santosh kumar said:   1 decade ago
Argcopy declared with in two dimensional array but args initialised to argcopy[0]. Is it correct. Please explain.

Santoshkumar said:   1 decade ago
Args is an array declared in main method which will takes the command line arguments and store in an array. That will be stored in argval[0]. So here array will be stored in another element of array so now that element will acts as two dimensional array. That thing we are printing.

Arun kumar said:   1 decade ago
Here argCopy[0](reference of one dimensional array) is referring args. This means, argCopy[0] is pointing the memory location of args. Thats why it prints the values which are stored in args.

Anita said:   1 decade ago
Here argcopy declared within 2 dimensional array.

Tajinderpal singh said:   1 decade ago
Here argcopy is declared as a two dimensional array when argcopy[0] is assigned args which is an array holding command line argument args[0],args[1],args[2].Now argcopy[0] is the single row i.e the first row of the two dimensional array without any coloumn specified .when args is assigned to argcopy[0],argscopy behaves as two dimensional array b'coz now it has column specified

So,

argcopy[0][0]=1
argcopy[0][1]=2
argcopy[0][2]=3

which is been printed in the for loop.

Ravindra said:   1 decade ago
How it is possible ?

Sonal Bhutada said:   1 decade ago
I m not able to understand. Please explain it in a much easier way.

Abhijit said:   1 decade ago
Can anyone explain how is it come?

Shiwam pandey said:   1 decade ago
Yes Rochu is correct and if we replace System.out.print (" " + argCopy[0][y]) ; with System.out.print (" " + argCopy[1][1]) ;.

Then it will print three times null.

Since default value of string is null.


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