The System
class of java provides arraycopy
method which is most efficient to copy one array data to another array.
public static void arraycopy(Object src, int srcPos, Object dest, int destPos, int length)
Using this you can copy one array data to another array using source position, destination position and length parameters of this method.
The components at positions srcPos
through srcPos+length-1
in the source array are copied into positions destPos
through destPos+length-1
, respectively, of the destination array.
If the src
and dest
arguments refer to the same array object, then the copying is performed as if the components at positions srcPos
through srcPos+length-1
were first copied to a temporary array with length
components and then the contents of the temporary array were copied into positions destPos
through destPos+length-1
of the destination array.
Example of arraycopy
public class ArrayCopyExample { public static void main(String[] args) { int[] copyFrom = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12}; int[] copyTo = new int[7]; System.arraycopy(copyFrom, 2, copyTo, 0, 7); for (int i : copyTo) { System.out.println(i); } } }