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yadin michaeli
Courses Plus Student 5,423 PointsDidnt get this arraycopy
So arrays of course i understand this but what exactly arraysofcopry do? please help
1 Answer
Daiane Silva
5,668 PointsWell, when you create an array, its a fixed size. So to add another element you have to create a bigger array, copy the content of the old array to this new one.
System.arraycopy(Object src, int srcPos, Object dest, int destPos, int length);
Basically, the first position is the array that you want to copy, the second is the position to start the copy of the array, normally at 0, the third is the array that you're making a copy to, the forth the position you want to send the copy to and the last one is the size of the first array.
It's like a loop that goes through your array, copying to another one:
int[] a = {1,2,3,4}
int[] b = new int[6];
for(int i = 0, i < a.lenght(); i ++{
b[i] = a[i]
}