Thread: array creation and inizialization in a class

Hi everybody, just registered. I'm studying java and thers is something about array creation and inizialization that seems weird to me.

class Test {
  private int[] array;
  array = new int[2];
}

Hi everybody, just registered. I'm studying java and thers is something about array creation and inizialization that seems weird to me.

The following code gives an error at compile

class Test {
  private int[] array;
  array = new int[2]; //<identifier> expected at compile time
}

But if I do the same inside a method, it works

class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[] arrayM;
    arrayM = new int[2];
    array[0] = 1;
    array[1] = 2;
  }
}

And an other strangeness I can't figure out is that if I modify the first snippet as in the following, it works:

class Test {
  private int[] array = new int[]{1,2};
}

Thanks in advance.

AR

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seems weird

Can you explain that?

Use [] with code tags.

inside a method, it works

Most statements are not allowed outside of a method.
Those that are allowed are mostly definitions and initialization.