Learning Kotlin - Part 2 - Arrays

In Learning Kotlin – Part 1 we looked at some basic concepts like type inference and string handling. In this part we deal with arrays:

You can easily create an array with the arrayOf function

var myArray = arrayOf(1, 1.23, "Jörn")

You can access arrays directly with the [] operator

println(myArray[2])
myArray[1] = 3.14

For the first respective last element you have the convenience functions first() and last()

println("First: ${myArray.first()}")
println("Last: ${myArray.last()}")

If You want to find out if a specific elements is in an array you use the contains method

println("Jörn in array: ${myArray.contains("Jörn")}")

To get its position in the array you can use the indexOf

println("Index of Jörn: ${myArray.indexOf("Jörn")}")

If the element is not found the return value is -1

Array size

The size of an array can be determined with the size property

println("Array length: ${myArray.size}")

To create a new array with a subset of the data of the old array the copyOfRange method comes in handy:

var partArray = myArray.copyOfRange(0,1)