# Examples

2D arrays work very similarly to regular arrays, and many of the ideas or methods that we use on arrays apply to multidimensional arrays as well. As a quick reminder, here is how to initialize a 2D array and access an element:

public static void main(String[] args)
{
int[][] arr = new int[10][20];
arr[0][0] = 1;
System.out.println(arr[0][0]);
}
//outputs 1


The only hard part that might not make a whole lot of sense at first is iterating through a 2D array, but this is quite simple as well. Instead of a single for loop, we will use two for loops instead. Here is a quick example to give you an idea.

public static void main(String[] args)
{
int[][] arr = new int[10][20];
int num = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < arr[i].length; j++) {
arr[i][j] = num;
num++;
}
}
}


As you can see, we create an empty array called arr. In it, we have 10 arrays, each with 20 elements respectively. To iterate through all the arrays, we use a standard for loop just like how we would a normal array. However, the only difference is that we now need to create a second for loop that iterates through the ith array. In this example, we simply set arr[i][j] to num and num++.