/** * @author lautturi.com * Java example: how to print rows as columns in java 2d array */ import java.util.*; public class Lautturi { public static void main(String[] args) { int arr[][] = { { 1, 2, 3, 4 }, { 5, 6, 7, 8, 15 }, { 9, 10, 11, 12 } }; int maxlen = 0; for (int row = 0; row < arr.length; row++) { maxlen = arr[row].length>maxlen? arr[row].length:maxlen; } for (int col = 0; col < maxlen; col++) { for (int row = 0; row < arr.length; row++) { if(col<arr[row].length) System.out.printf("%5d", arr[row][col]); else System.out.printf("%5s",""); } System.out.println(); } } }
output:
1 5 9 2 6 10 3 7 11 4 8 12 15