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    Arrays in C

    In C language, arrays are reffered to as structured data types. An array is defined


    as finite ordered collection of homogenous data, stored in contiguous memory
    locations.
    Here the words,

     finite means data range must be defined.


     ordered means data must be stored in continuous memory addresses.
     homogenous means data must be of similar data type.

    Example where arrays are used,

     to store list of Employee or Student names,


     to store marks of students,
     or to store list of numbers or characters etc.

    Since arrays provide an easy way to represent data, it is classified amongst the data
    structures in C. Other data structures in c are structure, lists, queues, trees etc.
    Array can be used to represent not only simple list of data but also table of data in
    two or three dimensions.

    Declaring an Array
    Like any other variable, arrays must be declared before they are used. General form
    of array declaration is,
    data-type variable-name[size];

    /* Example of array declaration */

    int arr[10];
    Here int is the data type, arr is the name of the array and 10 is the size of array. It
    means array arr can only contain 10 elements of int type.
    Index of an array starts from 0 to size-1 i.e first element of arr array will be stored
    at arr[0] address and the last element will occupy arr[9].

    Initialization of an Array
    After an array is declared it must be initialized. Otherwise, it will
    contain garbage value(any random value). An array can be initialized at
    either compile time or at runtime.

    Compile time Array initialization


    Compile time initialization of array elements is same as ordinary variable
    initialization. The general form of initialization of array is,
    data-type array-name[size] = { list of values };

    /* Here are a few examples */


    int marks[4]={ 67, 87, 56, 77 }; // integer array initialization

    float area[5]={ 23.4, 6.8, 5.5 }; // float array initialization

    int marks[4]={ 67, 87, 56, 77, 59 }; // Compile time error


    One important thing to remember is that when you will give more initializer(array
    elements) than the declared array size than the compiler will give an error.
    #include<stdio.h>

    void main()
    {
    int i;
    int arr[] = {2, 3, 4}; // Compile time array initialization
    for(i = 0 ; i < 3 ; i++)
    {
    printf("%d\t",arr[i]);
    }
    }

    2 3 4

    Runtime Array initialization


    An array can also be initialized at runtime using scanf() function. This approach is
    usually used for initializing large arrays, or to initialize arrays with user specified
    values. Example,
    #include<stdio.h>

    void main()
    {
    int arr[4];
    int i, j;
    printf("Enter array element");
    for(i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
    scanf("%d", &arr[i]); //Run time array initialization
    }
    for(j = 0; j < 4; j++)
    {
    printf("%d\n", arr[j]);
    }
    }

    Two dimensional Arrays


    C language supports multidimensional arrays also. The simplest form of a
    multidimensional array is the two-dimensional array. Both the row's and column's
    index begins from 0.
    Two-dimensional arrays are declared as follows,
    data-type array-name[row-size][column-size]
    /* Example */
    int a[3][4];

    An array can also be declared and initialized together. For example,


    int arr[][3] = {
    {0,0,0},
    {1,1,1}
    };
    Note: We have not assigned any row value to our array in the above example. It
    means we can initialize any number of rows. But, we must always specify number of
    columns, else it will give a compile time error. Here, a 2*3 multi-dimensional matrix is
    created.

    Runtime initialization of a two dimensional Array


    #include<stdio.h>

    void main()
    {
    int arr[3][4];
    int i, j, k;
    printf("Enter array element");
    for(i = 0; i < 3;i++)
    {
    for(j = 0; j < 4; j++)
    {
    scanf("%d", &arr[i][j]);
    }
    }
    for(i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
    for(j = 0; j < 4; j++)
    {
    printf("%d", arr[i][j]);
    }
    }
    }

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