//https://examples.javacodegeeks.com/java-basics/arrays-java-basics/java-string-array-example/ // package com.javacodegeeks.javabasics.stringarray; public class Arrays3 { public static void foo() { // declare a string array with initial size String[] schoolbag = new String[4]; // add elements to the array schoolbag[0] = "Books"; schoolbag[1] = "Pens"; schoolbag[2] = "Pencils"; schoolbag[3] = "Notebooks"; // this will cause ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException // schoolbag[4] = "Notebooks"; // declare a string array with no initial size // String[] schoolbag; // declare string array and initialize with values in one step String[] schoolbag2 = new String[4]; schoolbag2[0] = "Books"; schoolbag2[1] = "Pens"; schoolbag2[2] = "Pencils"; schoolbag2[3] = "Notebooks"; // print the third element of the string array System.out.println("The third element is: " + schoolbag2[2]); // iterate all the elements of the array int size = schoolbag2.length; System.out.println("The size of array is: " + size); for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { System.out.println("Index[" + i + "] = " + schoolbag2[i]); } } }