Passing a string array as a parameter to a function java

I believe this should be the way this is done...

    public static void function(String [] array){
    ...
    }

And the calling will be done like...

    public void test(){
        String[] stringArray = {"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","t","k","k","k","l","k"};
        function(stringArray);
    }

All the answers above are correct. But just note that you'll be passing the reference to the string array when you pass like this. If you make any modifications to the array in your called function, it will be reflected in the calling function also.

There is another concept called variable arguments in Java which you can look into. It basically works like this. Eg:-

 String concat (String ... strings)
   {
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ();
      for (int i = 0; i < strings.length; i++)
           sb.append (strings [i]);
      return sb.toString ();
   }

Here we can call the function like concat(a,b,c,d) or any number of params you want.

More Info: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/04/19/varargs.html


How about:

public class test {
    public static void someFunction(String[] strArray) { 
        // do something 
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] strArray = new String[]{"Foo","Bar","Baz"};
        someFunction(strArray);
    }
}

look at familiar main method which takes string array as param