Java exercise - display table with 2d array
- by TheHacker66
I'm struggling to finish a java exercise, it involves using 2d arrays to dinamically create and display a table based on a command line parameter.
Example:
java table 5
+-+-+-+-+-+
|1|2|3|4|5|
+-+-+-+-+-+
|2|3|4|5|1|
+-+-+-+-+-+
|3|4|5|1|2|
+-+-+-+-+-+
|4|5|1|2|3|
+-+-+-+-+-+
|5|1|2|3|4|
+-+-+-+-+-+
What i have done so far:
public static void main(String[] args) {
int num = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
String[][] table = new String[num*2+1][num];
int[] numbers = new int[num];
int temp = 0;
for(int i=0; i<numbers.length; i++)
numbers[i] = i+1;
// wrong
for(int i=0; i<table.length; i++){
for(int j=0; j<num;j++){
if(i%2!=0){
temp=numbers[0];
for(int k=1; k<numbers.length; k++){
numbers[k-1]=numbers[k];
}
numbers[numbers.length-1]=temp;
for(int l=0; l<numbers.length; l++){
table[i][j] = "|"+numbers[l];
}
}
else
table[i][j] = "+-";
}
}
for(int i=0; i<table.length; i++){
for(int j=0; j<num; j++)
System.out.print(table[i][j]);
if(i%2==0)
System.out.print("+");
else
System.out.print("|");
System.out.println();}
}
This doesn't work, since it prints 1|2|3|4 in every row, which isn't what i need. I found the issue, and it's because the first for loop changes the array order more times than needed and basically it returns as it was at the beginning.
I know that probably there's a way to achieve this by writing more code, but i always tend to nest as much as possible to "optimize" the code while i write it, so that's why i tried solving this exercise by using less variables and loops as possible.
Thanks in advance for your help!
