Searching an Array
Explore how to use Java's Arrays class to search sorted arrays efficiently with the binarySearch method. Understand its requirements, such as the need for sorted arrays and comparable elements. Learn how to handle arrays of custom objects with Comparable or Comparator implementations for effective searching.
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Arrays is a class in the java.utils package that contains various methods for manipulating arrays (such as sorting and searching). This class also contains a static factory that allows arrays to be seen as a list. The methods in this class throw a NullPointerException if the specified array reference is null.
Searching an element in an array
The Arrays class provides the binarySearch() method to search for a particular element in an array. There are a lot of overloaded ...