Re: arbitrary dimension array for math

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
8 Aug 2006 09:46:51 GMT
Message-ID:
<array-20060808114441@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
"Dimitri Ognibene" <dimitri.ognibene@gmail.com> writes:

I'm writing the code but it is rather complicated, and so it's cool,
but it could be useful to have some example.


  I wrote the following code as an example to show how to
  dynamically create and fill an arrays whose arbitrary
  extensions and arbitrary dimension is only known at run-time.

  Here it is suppossed to have 3 dimensions with extensions 4,
  5, and 6, respectively.

public class Main
{
  public static int[] cdr( final int[] list )
  { return java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange( list, 1, list.length ); }

  public static java.lang.Object build( final int ... extensions )
  { final java.lang.Object array = java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance
    ( java.lang.Integer.TYPE, extensions );
    for( int i = 0; i < extensions[ 0 ]; ++i )if( extensions.length > 1 )
    java.lang.reflect.Array.set( array, i, build( cdr( extensions )));
    else java.lang.reflect.Array.setInt(( int[] )array, i, i );
    return array; }

  public static void print( final java.lang.Object array )
  { for( int i = 0; i < java.lang.reflect.Array.getLength( array ); ++i )
    if( array.getClass().getName().startsWith( "[[" ))
    print( java.lang.reflect.Array.get( array, i )); else
    java.lang.System.out.print( java.lang.reflect.Array.getInt( array, i )); }

  public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
  { print( build( 4, 5, 6 )); }}

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