[3828] in java-interest
Re: arrays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Niemeyer)
Wed Nov 29 01:56:39 1995
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:54:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Pat Niemeyer <pat@icon-stl.net>
To: chwright@goesser.mit.edu
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9511282211.AA11783@goesser.mit.edu>
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 chwright@goesser.mit.edu wrote:
> Say I have a class with an instance variable that's an array. Then I
> go to use the class, but I find I need a larger array than I initialized
> in my class definition. What do I do??
You probably shouldn't initialize the array in the declaration.
However you can always start over:
String [] foo = new String [8];
//...
// Doh!
// Double the size of the foo array
String [] tmpVar = new String [ 2 * foo.length ];
System.arraycopy( foo, 0, tmpVar, 0, foo.length );
foo = tmpVar;
Pat
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