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1. What will be the output of the program?
public class CommandArgs
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
String s1 = args[1];
String s2 = args[2];
String s3 = args[3];
String s4 = args[4];
System.out.print(" args[2] = " + s2);
}
}
and the command-line invocation is
> java CommandArgs 1 2 3 4

A.	args[2] = 2	B.	args[2] = 3
C.	args[2] = null	D.	An exception is thrown at runtime.

Answer and Explanation

Answer:An exception is thrown at runtime.

Explanation:
An exception is thrown because in the code String s4 = args[4];, the array index (the fifth element) is out of bounds. The exception thrown is the cleverly named ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

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