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Declaring, creating and initializing an array: every form

Declaring, creating and initializing an array: every form

The five syntaxes Java accepts for the same thing — new, array literal, shorthand initializer, var and the zero-length array —, which one to use in each case, and the ones that only compile in the right place.


Written by
Andrés Segura
Id

jaa02

Posted

Sep 24, 2026

Reading time

6 min

java
arrays
syntax
fundamentals
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