Output of this...........?How you got that?

[Manoj Mani]

class Base{
public static void main(final String[] args){
int[] a = {1};
Base t = new Base();
t.increment(a);
System.out.println(a[a.length - 1]);
}
void increment(int[] i){
i[i.length - 1]++;
}


}

[prema venkat]

You will get the output as 2.
The value of a[0] is 1.After calling increment method the value become 2 by post increment operator.
So the output is 2.

In the line below
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i[i.length - 1]++;
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the value of i.length is 1 so 1-1=0;i[0]=1;
after that i[0]++;so i[0]=1+1=2;


So the value of a[0]=2

Regards,
Premavenkat.

[Quintin Stephenson]

The answer is 2.

An array of any type is an object, and therefore the rules of using objects as parameters (and the manipulation there on) apply and not the rules that apply to primative data types.

If you had just a standard int value that is passed into the incement() method then the printed answer would have been 1.

Example with overloading method to demonstrate the diffence.
class Base{
public static void main(final String[] args){
int[] a = {1};
int b = 1;
Base t = new Base();
t.increment(a);
System.out.println(a[a.length - 1]); // displays 2
t.increment(b);
System.out.println(b); // displays 1
}
// method to work with an int array object
void increment(int[] i){
i[i.length - 1]++;
}

// overloading method to work with a primative data type
void increment(int i){
i++;
}
}