My Programming Technique

[User-_-Name]

I am curious as to what others think of how I went about this:

I defined a multi dimensional array, and then outputted it in the middle of a program. Instead of outputting it VIA a string, I chose to output it using programming loops, and it outputs exactly as it was declared, without the type and name.

Feedback on my form if you don't mind:

	//multidimensional array
	int y[3][3] = {{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}};
	
	//output the array
	cout << "The array contains: ";
	for(int s = 0; s < 3; s++)
	{
		for(int k = 0, z = 0; k < 3; k++, z++) 
		{
			if(s == 2 && k == 2) cout << y[2][2] << "}}";
			else if(s == 0 && k == 0) cout << "{{" << y[0][0] << ",";
			else 
			{
				if(k == 0) cout << "{";
				cout << y[s][k] << ",";
				if(k == 2) cout << "\b},";
			}
		}
	}

[laserlight]

I would have done it in this way:

//output the array
cout << "The array contains: {";
for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
{
    if (i != 0)
    {
        cout << ',';
    }

    cout << '{';
    for (int j = 0; j < 3; ++j)
    {
        if (j != 0)
        {
            cout << ',';
        }

        cout << y[i][j];
    }
    cout << '}';
}
cout << "}\n";

EDIT:
Actually, because trailing commas in array aggregates are superfluous, if you so wish you could have simplified to:

//output the array
cout << "The array contains: {";
for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
{
    cout << '{';
    for (int j = 0; j < 3; ++j)
    {
        cout << y[i][j] << ',';
    }
    cout << "},";
}
cout << "}\n";