about length property

[Mani Venkata Kanth]

we know that length is final property ...for arrays...
in which class it will be present..?
any ideas...

[Christophe Verré]

Could you explain a bit more what you want to know ?

[Gowher Naik]

Krish is talking about class in javadocs.

[Mani Venkata Kanth]

length is a property...right?

it should be in some class....

i want to know that class???

[Max Vandenburg]

PLS CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG...

length is an attribute of an Array object. if you look at the API in the Array class there is a static method called getLength() which returns the length of an array...

do you know the relationship between static variables and and static methods? so by the look of the static method getLength(), i think we can safely assume that Array has a static variable called length which can also be access with Array.length;

so to answer your question, see the Array class in the API.

[Praveen Babu]

Originally posted by Krish DP:
length is a property...right?

it should be in some class....

i want to know that class???

Arrays are directly supported language features. You can find the length of an Array using getLength() method of Array class in java.lang.reflect package.
[ August 25, 2006: Message edited by: praveen babu ]

[Barry Gaunt]

Run the following little program and the class for String[] will be revealed:

public class ArraysClass
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(args.length);
        System.out.println(args.getClass().getName());
    }
}

[ August 25, 2006: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]