Print Both Diagonals of Matrix

This program prints both main and secondary diagonals of a matrix.

Problem Statement

Write a Java program to print both diagonals of a 3x3 matrix.

Source Code

1 public class MatrixDiagonals {
2 public static void main(String[] args) {
3 System.out.println("Eduinq Matrix Diagonals");
4 int[][] A = {{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}};
5 System.out.print("Main diagonal: ");
6 for(int i=0;i<3;i++) System.out.print(A[i][i]+" ");
7 System.out.print("\nSecondary diagonal: ");
8 for(int i=0;i<3;i++) System.out.print(A[i][3-1-i]+" ");
9 }
10 }

Program Output

Eduinq Matrix Diagonals
Main diagonal: 1 5 9 
Secondary diagonal: 3 5 7 

Explanation

Main diagonal elements are accessed as A[i][i] and secondary diagonal elements as A[i][n-1-i], and separate loops print both sequences, demonstrating diagonal extraction from a matrix.

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