Java Program to Print Matrix or 2D Array

This blog post will show you how to Print a Matrix or 2D Array using a Java program. There are different ways to Print a 2D array, let’s see a few examples for it below:

Example-1. Print Matrix or 2D Array using for loop in Java

package com.javacodepoint.array.multidimensional;

public class Print2DArray {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		// Declare and Initialize a 2D array or a Matrix
		int arr[][] = { { 1, 2 }, { 3, 4 }, { 5, 6 } };

		// Print 2D Array using for loops
		// Outer for loop for row iteration
		for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {

			// Inner for loop for column iteration
			for (int j = 0; j < arr[0].length; j++) {
				System.out.print(arr[i][j] + " ");
			}
			// To move cursor to new line
			System.out.println();
		}
	}

}

OUTPUT:

1 2
3 4
5 6

Example-2. Print Matrix using for-each loop in Java

package com.javacodepoint.array.multidimensional;

public class Print2DArrayExample2 {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		// Declare and Initialize a 2D array or a Matrix
		int matrix[][] = { { 1, 2 }, { 3, 4 }, { 5, 6 } };

		// Print matrix using for-each loop
		// Outer for loop for row iteration
		for (int[] arr : matrix) {
			// Inner for loop for column iteration
			for (int i : arr) {
				System.out.print(i + " ");
			}
			// To move cursor to new line
			System.out.println();
		}
	}
}

OUTPUT:

1 2
3 4
5 6

Example-3. Print Matrix using Arrays utils method

In this example, we use deepToString() utility method of java.util.Arrays class. The deepToString() method is used to display the Java multi-dimensional array. In the below example, we are printing a 3×3 size Matrix.

package com.javacodepoint.array.multidimensional;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Print2DArrayExample3 {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		// Declare and Initialize a 2D array (Matrix) of 3x3 size
		int matrix[][] = { { 11, 22, 33 }, { 44, 55, 66}, { 77, 88, 99} };

		// Print 2D Array or Matrix using deepToString() method of Arrays
		System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(matrix));
	}
}

OUTPUT:

[[11, 22, 33], [44, 55, 66], [77, 88, 99]]

See also:
How to Read a Matrix from a User in Java?
Java Program to Copy an Array.
Java Program to Sum of Two Arrays.

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Java Programs based on the Collection Framework

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