[wannabee]

Hello! I have written a following code lately in java, and i got rather some odd out put. Can any one please explain? Here is the code:

import java.util.*;

public class Challenge1
{
 public static void main(String args[])
 {
 Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 System.out.println("enter the data");
 int x[] = new int[5];
 x[0] = in.nextInt();
 System.out.println(x);
 }
}

OutPut: [I@14318bb
I know that using

System.out.print(x[0])

would give me the required output, but what does the above output mean?

[Ryano121]

You are just printing out the reference to the array in memory so you just get the hashcode of the object.

[CasiOo]

It shows you the toString() implementation of Object

They describe the method pretty good in the API

Quote

The toString method for class Object returns a string consisting of the name of the class of which the object is an instance, the at-sign character `@', and the unsigned hexadecimal representation of the hash code of the object. In other words, this method returns a string equal to the value of:
getClass().getName() + '@' + Integer.toHexString(hashCode())

[Kakerergodt]

So in short, if you want to print out an array, use a for-loop or use a premade method like "Arrays.toString(array);"

[wannabee]

Thank you guys! That was very helpful! thank you very much!