I have an integer array.
int[] arr1 = new int[] {3, 4, 5};. I want to insert this array when initializing another array. So that when
int[] arr2 = new int[] {8, 7, arr1, 1, 0};, arr2 will equal {8, 7, 3, 4, 5, 1, 0}.
Also, I do not know the length of arr1, so I can't do int[] arr2 = new int[] {8, 7, arr1[0], arr1[1], arr1[2], 1, 0};
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sadly as far as I'm aware something like that can't be done in a single operation. The best I was able to come up with is to create a result array. Then you copy to it first part of arr2, whole arr1 and finally second part of arr2. In the end whole method would look like so:
private static int[] insertArrayAtPosition(int[] arr1, int[] arr2, int insertPos){
int[] result = new int[arr1.length + arr2.length];
System.arraycopy(arr2, 0, result, 0, insertPos);
System.arraycopy(arr1, 0, result, insertPos, arr1.length);
System.arraycopy(arr2, insertPos, result, insertPos + arr1.length, arr2.length - insertPos);
return result;
}
And then you can call it like so:
public static void main(String args[]) {
int[] arr1 = new int[] {3, 4, 5};
int[] arr2 = new int[] {8, 7, 1, 0};
int[] result = insertArrayAtPosition(arr1, arr2, 2);
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(result));
}
Edit: Milgo's solution looks much better. However, mine allows to insert one array into another at specific position after they are already created. Which one to use depeds on the usecase.
You could use ArrayUtils.addAll() three times.
int[] arr1 = new int[] {3, 4, 5};
int[] arr2 = new int[arr1.length + 4];
ArrayUtils.addAll(arr2, new int[]{8, 7});
ArrayUtils.addAll(arr2, arr1);
ArrayUtils.addAll(arr2, new int[]{1, 0});
ArrayUtils is part of Apache Commons.
ArrayUtils doesn't seem to exist. I am using Java 8 with no external libraries
org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils in your code?This is not natively supported in java / there is no language feature that allows you to use a one liner. You can of course write a loop that inserts the elements of the other array, you can also use list interfaces or Arrays#stream. The best way to do it should probably be to use lists, like this:
List<Integer> arr1 = Arrays.asList(3, 4, 5);
List<Integer> arr2 = Arrays.asList(8, 7, 1, 0);
arr2.addAll(2, arr1);
Hope this helpes.
Edit: It is a one liner btw :)
arr1 and arr2 are int[], not List<Integer>. Switching from one to another requires several lines of code
List<Integer> and Integer[]), but there is no one-line conversion for List<Integer> and int[]. It would require to cast each element from Integer to int or vice versa. Nonetheless, I agree it would be more adapted to work with List<Integer> in his case
ArrayUtils.addAll. I need the array to be in a specific position in the second array.