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Ice(ITB)  
  Posted 26 August 2009 - 04:33 AM
Hopfully I'll manage to cover the basics of vectors in this tutorial.
Vectors are like the sun website says "a growable array of objects". Follow & Share General Discussion
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2:Declaration of vectors, Corner Cubicle
3:Adding elements to a vector,
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5:Accessing an Element. Student Campus
6:Discovering vector size,
7:Improving Efficiency. Software Development

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Ok! so the first thing you need is to import the vector utility from the
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Vector<String> myVector=new Vector<String>(10,2);
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String sample="tester"; //test string declared

myVector.add(sample); //adds sample's value to the vector

System.out.println("Value is :"+myVector.get(0)); //Displays the valu

}//end of main

}//end of class
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This program puts a string "tester" into the vector then displays it back.
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The function ".get()" returns the value of an element at whatever index
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myVector.remove(0); //this removes the element at the specifi

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I place a string in the vector then remove it with the .remove() function
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Vector<String> myVector=new Vector<String>(10,2); //declare vector

String sample="tester"; //test string declared

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String holder; //Will hold the value of an ele

myVector.add(sample); //adds sample's value to the vector

holder=myVector.elementAt(0);
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This program use's the elementAt() function to extract the value from
the array into a normal variable and then display it
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The next programme shows the .toString() function

import java.util.Vector; //imports vector utility

class example{
public static void main(String []args){

Vector<String> myVector=new Vector<String>(10,2); //declare vect

String e1="Element1Contense"; //this string will be later a

String e2="Element2Contense"; //this string will be later a

String holder; //this stri

myVector.add(e1); //adds e1 to the ve
myVector.add(e2); //adds e2 to the ve
holder=myVector.toString(); //holder becomes

System.out.println("Value is :"+holder); //Disp

}//end of main
}//end of class

The above program adds two elements to the vector then all the
elements are extracted as one string which is displayed to the screen.
Useful for when your getting errors whilst using a vector.

6:Discovering vector size,

Discovering the size of a vector is a constant necessity as it increases
and decrease in size.
This makes the demands on a loop in your program change as the
program runs
 Once again there's not much to this part. I'm going to make use of the
.size() function

import java.util.Vector; //imports vector utility

class example{
public static void main(String []args){

Vector<String> myVector=new Vector<String>(10,2); //dec

String e1="Element1"; //this string will be later a

String e2="Element2"; //this string will be later a

int number; //thi

myVector.add(e1); //adds e1
myVector.add(e2); //adds e2
number=myVector.size(); //number becomes equal

System.out.println("The Number of elements are :"+numb

}//end of main
}//end of class

The Above program discovers the size of the vector. It would never
really be used in the format that I have shown above.
The real purpose of .size() is that it gives you control over loops that
you can use in your programs as shown in the next step.

7: Improving Efficiency:
Most of my examples above would not work very efficiently if large
amounts needed to be added to a vector.
They are also intended as something you can build off.
Below is a more refined program which makes use of for loops.

import java.util.Vector; //imports vector utility

import java.util.Scanner; //imports scanner utillity
class example{

public static void main(String []args){

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

Vector<String> myVector=new Vector<String>(10,2); //declare vector

String word=""; //this string will be later added to the vector at 0

//Fill vector
for(int i=0;i<=myVector.size();i++){ //this for loop will run for eternity,

System.out.print("\n Type EXIT to exit loop , Enter a word :");

word=scan.nextLine(); //reads in String from user

if(word.equals("EXIT")){ //causes loop to exit
break;

myVector.add(word); //adds word to vector

}//end of for loop

//Display Contense
for(int k=0;k<myVector.size();k++){ //I'll use a for loop to iterate through the arra

System.out.print("\n "+myVector.get(k));
}

}//end of main

}//end of class

The above program allows a user to fill a vector with values and then
displays them back.

I Hope my tutorial will be of some help to anyone looking for

information and examples on vectors.
This tutorial really only scratch's the surface of their use's. I'll probably
make another on objects,class's and vectors

Replies To: Vectors for Beginners

NeoTifa  
Posted 26 August 2009 - 12:46 PM
Excellent. Maybe they would benfit in knowing the difference between
LinkedList, ArrayList, and Vector.

Ice(ITB)  
Posted 26 August 2009 - 01:37 PM
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NeoTifa, on 26 Aug, 2009 - 11:46 AM, said:
Excellent. Maybe they would benfit in knowing the difference between
LinkedList, ArrayList, and Vector.
 Thanks and I'll stick that in at the start of the next one... as for this one
I wanted to stay as far away from arrays as I could to stop confusion.

The_Programmer-  
Posted 10 December 2011 - 03:26 PM
A Vector seems like an ArrayList. What is the difference?

modi123_1  
Posted 10 December 2011 - 04:20 PM
Good bless the googles.

http://javarevisited...st-in-java.html
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arraylist-in-java.html)
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