If a char array is an Object in Java, why does printing it not display its hash code?

Question

Printing a char array does not display a hash code:

class IntChararrayTest{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        int intArray[] = {0,1,2};
            


        

Answer 1

The other answers correctly explain your case of a separate call to PrintStream.println and the same is true for .print. However your title could cover other ways of printing. PrintWriter.println and .print AND .write do have char[] overloads for a simple call.

However, formatting does not have a special case:

 System.out.format ("%s%n", charArray); // or printf
 myPrintWriter.format ("%s%n", charArray); // or printf

each outputs [C@hash, similar to the handing of int and other type arrays.

Nor does concatenation, often used in printing:

 System.out.println ("the value of charArray is " + charArray);

outputs the value of charArray is [C@hash.