| The following arrays represent the
data from a dog show. Notice that the arrays do not
all contain the same "type" of data. It is often
necessary to represent data in a "table" form, as
shown below. Such data, can be stored using
parallel arrays.
Parallel arrays are several arrays with
the same number of elements that work in
tandem to organize data. |
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dogname
|
Wally |
Skeeter |
Corky |
Jessie |
Sadie |
round1
round2
**The true
beauty of parallel arrays, is that each array
may be of a different data type.
In the data
represented above, the first array is the dog's name, the second
array is the dog's score in round 1 of the competition, and the
third array is the dog's score in round 2 of the competition.
The arrays are parallel, in that the dog in the first element of
the first array has the scores represented in the first elements
of the second and third arrays.
//Printing the dog competition
information:
for(int index = 0; index < dogname.length; index++)
{
System.out.println(dogname[index]);
System.out.println(round1[index]);
System.out.println(round2[index]);
}
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