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Arrays in my French program

Posted by Chloe on January 21, 2002 at 10:53 AM

In a French learning program I'm writing I've got a bit of code like this:

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String[][] words = {{"Hello", "Bonjour"},
{"Goodbye", "Au revoir"},
{"Yes", "Oui"},
{"No", "Non"}};

int numberOfWords = 4;

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Should I want to add more words, I also have to change the value of numberOfWords (there is a part later in the program where it needs to know how many words there are). Is there any way of automatically finding out how many there are, without me having to manually change it?

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