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Two Dim Array

A two-dimensional array is a matrix structure consisting of rows and columns where data values are stored in a specified sequence. It can be initialized using two methods: simple value initialization or nested braces, and elements are accessed using row and column indexes. Additionally, two-dimensional arrays can store character data by enclosing characters in apostrophes.

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Two Dim Array

A two-dimensional array is a matrix structure consisting of rows and columns where data values are stored in a specified sequence. It can be initialized using two methods: simple value initialization or nested braces, and elements are accessed using row and column indexes. Additionally, two-dimensional arrays can store character data by enclosing characters in apostrophes.

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Two-Dimensional Array

• A two-Dimensional array is a matrix structure. It consists of a number


of Rows and Columns. Each data value is stored in matrix format
according to the sequence of the data values specified. A Two-
Dimensional Array can be visualized by looking at the below image:
Initializing a 2D Array
• In order to understand how to initialize a Two Dimensional array with
data values, we follow the following syntax,
data_type array_name [x][y] ;

where,
data_type = Type of data to be stored in the array
x = number of rows
y = number of columns
Note – Elements of a 2D array are generally represented
in the format arr[i][j] where ‘i’ is the number of rows and ‘j’
is the number of columns of the array.

# Two-dimensional Array initialization


int arr[3][2] = {100, 10, 200, 20, 300, 30} ; OR
int arr[3][2] = {{100, 10}, {200, 20}, {300, 30}} ; //The values will be filled row
wise
• The first method is a simple value initialization, where the values are
stored in the array from left to right. i.e. first 2 elements will be stored
in Row 1, the next two in row 2, and so on.
• The second method uses the nested braces method. Here every set
of braces represents a row. Each nested braces value will be stored in
separate rows. In the above example, there are 3 inner braces, so
there will be 3 rows in the Two-dimensional Array.
Accessing Elements of 2D Array

• Just like the Indexing method used for accessing elements of a One-
Dimensional Array, Two-Dimensional Arrays also use the Indexing
method. The only difference is that the row and column indexes are
used to access array elements.
# To print all the elements of a 2D Array #include
using namespace std;
int main() { int arr[4][2] = { { 10, 11 }, { 20, 21 }, { 30, 31
}, { 40, 41 } };
cout << "Elements of 2D Array are : \n" ;
for (int x = 0; x < 4 ; x++) // Outer for loop for traversing
rows
{ for(int y = 0; y < 2 ; y++) // Inner for loop for traversing
columns
{ cout << "\t" << arr[x][y] ; // Print individual array element
}
cout << endl;
} }
Two-Dimensional Character Array
Two-dimensional arrays are not only used to store numeric forms of data but can also store character data type
values. In order to store characters in a two-dimensional array, we need to encase them in the Apostrophe mark
i.e. ‘ ‘. Following is an example of how a 2D Array is used to store character data type –

using namespace std;


int main()
{ char val [3][3]= { {'c', 'a', 't'}, {'m', 'a', 't'}, {'f', 'a', 't'} };
cout << val[2][0] ;
}

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