To find the length of a string array in Java, you can use the length
field of the array.
Here's an example of how to find the length of a string array in Java:
String[] words = {"apple", "banana", "orange"}; int length = words.length; System.out.println("The length of the array is " + length);
In the above example, an array of strings is created with three elements. The length
field of the array is then accessed and stored in the length
variable. The length
variable is then printed to the console.
Note that the length
field is a final field, which means it cannot be modified. It is also not a method, so it cannot be called with parentheses.
Keep in mind that the length
field returns an int
value, which means it can only return lengths up to the maximum value of an int
(2147483647). If you need to handle arrays with larger lengths, you can use the long
data type or the java.math.BigInteger
class.
For example:
import java.math.BigInteger; String[] words = {"apple", "banana", "orange"}; BigInteger length = BigInteger.valueOf(words.length); System.out.println("The length of the array is " + length);
In this example, the length
field of the array is accessed as an int
value, which is then converted to a BigInteger
object using the valueOf()
method. The BigInteger
object is then stored in the length
variable and printed to the console.