local variable count and array[count]: Too Many Variables to Count!

[Robin Lane]

I'm struggling with an itty bitty little puzzle. I can't for the life of me figure out exactly what is being referred to in the following code:

public class InitArray
{
   public static void main( String args[] )
   {
      int array[] = new int[10];//array creation statement
      System.out.printf( "%s%8s\n", "Index", "Value" );//displays column headings for Index and Value
 
      for ( int counter = 0; counter < array.length; counter++ )//declares and initializes local variable counter to 0, sets counter less than array length as loop condition, and postincrements counter by 1
         System.out.printf( "%5d%8d\n", [B]counter[/B], [B]array[counter][/B] );//this displays the values stored as the elements' index numbers and the elements' values, but where does array[counter] come from?

[Henry Wong]

but where does array[counter] come from?

It comes from the first line of the main() method, where you declared the array. Now, since you never set any of the values, they should all have the default value, which for ints is zero.

Henry

[Robin Lane]

Henry, thank you so much for answering my question. I have no previous programming experience and Java is a little more abstract than the way I normally think.