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Re: Using the list method in the File class

Posted by Brian Sanders on October 09, 2001 at 4:50 PM

Like I said, when I print b, I get some gobbledygook which shouldn't happen.


Your gobbledygook may be just what is expected. Given this example,


String[] s = { "foo", "bar", "baz" };
System.out.println(s);

the value that is printed to the console is similar to this:
[Ljava.lang.String;@136228. And this is entirely appropriate. This indicates that the value being printed is a one-dimensional String array at a particular memory address.

If you want to print out the values in an array, you must iterate:


for (int i=0; i < s.length; i++)
{
System.out.println(s[i]);
}





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