How to remove last comma and space in array? Java [duplicate]

Question

guys I was wondering how to remove the extra comma and space from the array? When I run the program it gives me {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, }. What I want is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. Main must stay the same. PrintArray method is the one I need help with.

Referring to duplicate question statement. This is different because it asks a user for a number and prints the array accordingly. This is not a duplicate question.

public static void printArray(int[] myArray) {
    System.out.print("[");
    for(int i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
        myArray[i] = i + 1;
        System.out.print(myArray[i] + ", ");
    }

    System.out.println("]");
}

Answer 1

Don't print it in the first place. Print the comma before the string and only when i > 0.

public static void printArray(int[] myArray)
{

    System.out.print("[");
    for(int i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
    {
        myArray[i] = i + 1;
        if (i > 0)
        {
            System.out.print(", ");
        }
        System.out.print(myArray[i]);
    }
    System.out.println("]");
}

Answer 2

The easy way to do this is just use Arrays.toString

public static void printArray(int[] myArray)
{
    System.out.print( Arrays.toString( myArray ) );
}

Note this prints brackets instead of braces. In the interest of completeness, if you do implement this yourself, don't forget to check for the array being null in addition to other boundary conditions like length = 0.

Here is an example using StringBuilder, where I just always remove the last two characters after checking for null and length = 0. If you have a very complicated string to calculate for each item in a list/array, this can be easier than copying the code to make each item outside the loop, and can be slightly faster than checking for i==array.length-1 each time through the loop.

public class MyArraysToString
{

   public static void main( String[] args )
   {
      int[] test = { 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, };
      printArray( test );
      System.out.println( myToString( null ) );
      System.out.println( myToString( new int[0] ) );
      System.out.println( myToString( test ) );
   }

   public static void printArray( int[] myArray )
   {
      System.out.println( Arrays.toString( myArray ) );
   }

   public static String myToString( int[] a ) {
      if( a == null ) return "null";
      if( a.length == 0 ) return "{}";
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      sb.append( '{' );
      for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
         sb.append( a[i] );
         sb.append( ", " );
      }
      sb.setLength( sb.length()-2 );
      sb.append( '}' );
      return sb.toString();
   }
}

Answer 3

I would modify it as such (printing the comma before the next item, for index > 0)

System.out.print("[");
for(int i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
  myArray[i] = i + 1;
  System.out.print(((i > 0) ? ", " : "") + myArray[i]);
}
System.out.print("]");

Or, in Java 8,

System.out.println(
  "[" + 
  Arrays.stream(array)
      .mapToObj(String::valueOf)
      .collect(Collectors.joining(", "))
  + "]"
);