Thread: Why isn't this 2D array working?

Given a 2D array of Strings and a non-empty array of Strings where each string is of length 2 or more. Write a method that will place the first 2 chars of each String into a 2D array in row major order. If the 1D array runs out of strings then fill in the rest of the elements with “$$”.

 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
 
        String[][] t = new String[2][3];
        String[][] test;
        String[] words = {"hello", "blah", "boom", "elephant"};
        test = twoCharsTo2D(t, words);
        print(test);
 
 
    }
 
    public static String[][] twoCharsTo2D(String[][] table, String[] words)
    {
        for(int r = 0; r<table.length; r++)
        {
            for(int c = 0; c<table[r].length; c++)
            {
                table[r][c] = "$$";
            }
        }
        int counter = 0;
        for(int rows = 0; rows<table.length; rows++)
        {
            if(counter==words.length)
                break;
            for(int col = 0; col<table[rows].length; col++)
            {
 
                table[rows][col] = words[col].substring(0,3);
                counter++;
            }
        }
        return table;
 
    }

It's a simple problem, but when I try printing this method I get

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 2

Thanks!

i think the problem with print(test) method. Please post the print(String[][]) method.