With this example we are going to demonstrate how to compare two dimensional arrays. We are using int arrays, but the same API applies to any types of arrays, e.g. boolean[][], byte[][], char[][], double[][], float[][], long[][], short[][] and String[][]. In short, to compare two dimensional arrays we have implemented a method as described below:
- The example’s method is
boolean equal(final int[][] arr1, final int[][] arr2). The method takes as parameters twointarrays, and returns aboolean, that is true if the arrays are equal and false otherwise. - The method first checks if both the arrays are null, and returns true if they are both null and false otherwise.
- Then the method checks if the two arrays’ lengths are equal. If they are it returns true, or else false.
- Finally, the method invokes the
equals(int[] a, int[] a2)method of Arrays, for the arrays in the two dimensional arrays. The method returns true if the two specified arrays of ints are equal to one another. Two arrays are considered equal if they contain the same elements in the same order. Also, two array references are considered equal if both are null. - Create two int arrays, with two dimensions and invoke the example’s method in order to check if they are equal.
Let’s take a look at the code snippet that follows:
package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;
import java.util.Arrays;
public class EqualArrays {
public static void main(String[] args) {
/*
* Please note that the same API applies to any type of arrays e.g.
* boolean[][], byte[][], char[][], double[][], float[][], long[][], short[][], String[][] etc
*/
int[][] a1 = {{1, 2, 3}, {5, 19, 56}, {289, 100, 30}};
int[][] a2 = {{1, 2, 3}, {5, 19, 56}, {289, 100, 30}};
if (equal(a1, a2)) {
System.out.println("The arrays are equal!");
} else {
System.out.println("The arrays are not equal");
}
}
public static boolean equal(final int[][] arr1, final int[][] arr2) {
if (arr1 == null) {
return (arr2 == null);
}
if (arr2 == null) {
return false;
}
if (arr1.length != arr2.length) {
return false;
}
for (int i = 0; i < arr1.length; i++) {
if (!Arrays.equals(arr1[i], arr2[i])) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
Output:
The arrays are equal!
This was an example of how to compare two dimensional arrays in Java.
THIS DOESN’T WORK, USE DEEPEQUALS INSTEAD. YOU’RE WELCOME