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How do you destroy an array?

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8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

That depends on the programming language. In Java - since you posted the question in the Java category - an array is treated like an object. That means that you usually don't need to do anything: as soon as there are no more variables that point to the array - and that usually happens when the method that declares the array finishes running - it will become available to be destroyed automatically by the garbage collector. The programmer doesn't have much control over WHEN exactly this happens; the Java Virtual Machine decides when it's convenient to run the garbage collector.

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