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I am trying to print out a gameBoard that has a "-" for each spot of the array: however every time I run this code I get this printed to the console:

[[C@2a139a55.

Any suggestions?

public class Game {



    public static void main(String args){



        char realBoard = new char[7][7];



        for (int i=0;i<7;i++){

            for(int j=0;j<7;j++){

                realBoard[i][j]='-';

            }

        }

        System.out.print((realBoard));

    }

}

realBoard is an array, an object, so you can't just print it like that. You will need to iterate over the elements again

for(char y: realBoard) {

    for(char x: realBoard) {

        System.out.print(x);

    }

    System.out.println();

}

Unless you need to use the array data of mark elsewhere, you would be better off just using print statements inside your loops.

for(int i = 0; i < 7; i++) {

  for(int j = 0; j < 7; j++) {

    //Print for each row

    System.out.print("-");

  }

  //Move to next line

  System.out.print("n");

}

You can't print a 2D array like that. To print a 2D array in one line you can use:

System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(realBoard));

Or in multiple lines:

for(char x: realBoard)

            System.out.println(Arrays.toString(x));

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