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Re :Array.length

Posted by Pierre on June 13, 2001 at 7:34 AM

> hi everybody!
> Any body can help me pls tell me where the "length" static variable exist in Java.It is not containing Java Doc as well as Java.lang.reflect.Array class also. But all we know this works well.

in the Java Language Specifcation :
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/arrays.doc.html#64347 :
"10.7 Array Members
The members of an array type are all of the following:

The public final field length, which contains the number of components of the array (length may be positive or zero)
The public method clone, which overrides the method of the same name in class Object and throws no checked exceptions
All the members inherited from class Object; the only method of Object that is not inherited is its clone method "