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    Hello more experienced users,
    Can someone explain to me how it is that this code prints 012? Do arrays behave differently than ints and floats in that when you declare anyType[]1=anyType[]2, the elements of anyType[]1 are assigned to match the values of anyType[]2 throughout the rest of the method?

    public class test {

    public static void main(String[] args){
    int[]list1={1,2,3};
    int []list2={1,2,3};
    list2=list1;
    list1[0]=0;list1[1]=1;list2[2]=2;

    for(int i=0;i<list2.length;i++)
    {
    System.out.print(list2[i]+"");
    }

    }
    }

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    Default Re: array elements assignment question

    how it is that this code prints 012?
    These statement assigns those values to the array:
    list1[0]=0;list1[1]=1;list2[2]=2;
    This statement replaces the value that was in list2 with the value that is in list1
    list2=list1;
    Now there are two variables that point to the same array. The values that were in the array originally pointed to by list2 are lost.

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