OnJava8-Examples/arrays/RaggedArray.java

// arrays/RaggedArray.java
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import java.util.*;

public class RaggedArray {
  static int val = 1;
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SplittableRandom rand = new SplittableRandom(47);
    // 3-D array with varied-length vectors:
    int[][][] a = new int[rand.nextInt(7)][][];
    for(int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
      a[i] = new int[rand.nextInt(5)][];
      for(int j = 0; j < a[i].length; j++) {
        a[i][j] = new int[rand.nextInt(5)];
        Arrays.setAll(a[i][j], n -> val++); // (1)
      }
    }
    System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(a));
  }
}
/* Output:
[[], [[1], [2], [3, 4, 5, 6]], [[], [7, 8], [9, 10]],
[[11, 12, 13], [14], [15, 16, 17, 18]], [[19, 20, 21],
[22, 23, 24], [25], []], [[26], [], [27]]]
*/