How do I print out only the first 3 elements of an array that has 5 elements in java?

Question

How do I only print out the first 5 elements of an array that has 10 elements?

I know I can just do:

String[] strArray = {"bacon", "chicken", "ham", "egg", "poop"};
System.out.println(strArray[0]);
System.out.println(strArray[1]);
System.out.println(strArray[2]);

But assuming I had 100 elements and wanted to print out the first 25 elements. Or wanted to print out all elements from the 10th to the 50th. Writing all the lines of code would take up time.

Is there like a way to tell the console to print "from" one element to another? Sort of like from 10-50? So like a short-cut.

Solution 1

Print first 25 elements:

for (int i=0; i<25; i++) {
    System.out.println(strArray[i]);
}

Print element number 10 to 50:

for (int j=9; j<50; j++) {
    System.out.println(strArray[j]);
}

Solution 2

Since Java 8

You can use limit from the Stream class:

Stream.of(strArray).limit(3).forEach(System.out::println);

or

Arrays.stream(strArray).limit(3).forEach(System.out::println); 

Solution 3

You can do this very easily using a for loop

String[] strArray = {"bacon", "chicken", "ham", "egg", "poop"};
for (i = 0; i < 3; i ++){
    Ssytem.out.println(strArray[i]);
};

Comments

[Nir Alfasi]

Hint: for-loop

[Alp]

read about loops. for loop is your friend. java.util.Arrays.sort() is good to sort arrays and it is your friend as well. =]