Question

Which of the following statements about creating arrays and initializing their elements is false?

Answer 1

Answer:

b. When an array is created, the number of elements must be placed in square brackets following the type of element being stored.

Explanation:

In Java an uninitialized array contains null values. Thus statement c is true as well.

Also generally for initializing and displaying array elements a for loop is used. Hence statement d is also correct.

In Java syntax for declaring an array is as follows:

Array declaration:

type [] array_name ;

Array instantiation(memory allocation):

type [] array_name = new array_name [size of array];

From the above it can be seen that the statement a is true and statement b is false as number of elements in array are not mentioned after the type.

Hence the correct answer is b.