Multi Dimensional Arrays
Multi Dimensional Arrays
• It is sometimes useful to arrange data into rows and columns (two dimensional
arrays), or even higher dimensionality.
•A particular cell in a three-dimensional array may be accessed as follows:
Arr_name[dim1][dim2]
Multi Dimensional Arrays -Example
• For eg., if there are eight students and ten questions, and the answers can be stored
in a two-dimensional array as given.
• Similarly, the distances between the cities can be represented using a two-
dimensional array as given.
Multi Dimensional Arrays
• An array can be declared with multiple dimensions.
2 Dimensional 3 Dimensional
Can you specify the dimension of the array and show how individual elements can
be accessed?
Answer….
A. 2X4 D. 3X3
B. 2X2 E. 3x1
C. 4X5 F. 5X3
One-Dimensional array
Two-Dimensional array
Array_name[row][column] - C/C++
Array_name[row, column] (or)
Array_name(row, column)
Multidimensional Arrays
A two-dimensional array consists of a certain number of rows and columns:
integer NUMROWS = 3;
integer NUMCOLS = 7;
Array[NUMROWS][NUMCOLS];
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 4 18 9 3 -4 6 0
1 12 45 74 15 0 98 0
2 84 87 75 67 81 85 79
Array[2][5] 3rd value in 6th column
Array[0][4] 1st value in 5th column
The declaration must specify the number of rows and the number of columns, and both must
be constants.
Processing a 2-D Array Row Row<2 Column Column
<3
A one-dimensional array is usually processed via a for loop. 0 true 0 true
Similarly, a two-dimensional array may be processed with a nested for 1 true
loop:
2 true
for (int Row = 0; Row < NUMROWS; Row++)
{ 3 False
for (int Col = 0; Col < NUMCOLS; Col++)
1 true 0 true
{
1 true
Array[Row][Col] = 0;
} 2 true
}
Example Array(2x3): 3 False
000
000 2 false
Each pass through the inner for loop will initialize all the elements of the
current row to 0.
Questions ?
• Given two matrix A and B, Can they multiplied?
Algorithm to Add two matrix
• Step 1: Start
• Step 2: Input the size of matrix 1 and matrix 2.
• Step 3: If (matrix1_row == matrix2_row) && (matrix1_column== matrix2_column)
step 3.1 :for i=1 to rows[matrix 1]
step 3.2 : for j=1 to columns [matrix 1]
step3.2.1: Input matrix 1 [i,j] Input matrix 2 [i,j]
step3.2.2: matrix 3 [i,j]= matrix 1 [i,j] + matrix 2 [i,j];
else addition not possible Similarly ,.. We can perform
matrix subtraction
• Step 4 :Display matrix 3 [i,j];
• Step 5: Stop
Write the algorithm to transpose the matrix.
