For completeness’ sake I’m posting the “finalized” version which adds the loading part:
/**
* Conversion Arr3d to JSONArr3d (v1.0)
* GoToLoop (2019/Dec/17)
* Discourse.Processing.org/t/saving-storing-a-multidimensional-array/16391/5
*/
static final String FILENAME = "JArr3D.json", OPT = "compact";
static final int RANGE = 100, DIMS = 4;
double[][][] my3dArr = generateArr3d(RANGE, DIMS);
JSONArray my3dJarr;
void setup() {
my3dJarr = arr3dToJarr3d(my3dArr);
println(my3dJarr.format(-1));
saveJSONArray(my3dJarr, dataPath(FILENAME), OPT);
my3dJarr = loadJSONArray(FILENAME);
my3dArr = jarr3dToArr3d(my3dJarr);
println(joinArr3d(my3dArr));
exit();
}
static final JSONArray arr3dToJarr3d(final double[][][] arr3d) {
final JSONArray jarr3d = new JSONArray();
for (final double[][] arr2d : arr3d) {
final JSONArray jarr2d = new JSONArray();
jarr3d.append(jarr2d);
for (final double[] arr1d : arr2d) {
final JSONArray jarr1d = new JSONArray();
jarr2d.append(jarr1d);
for (final double d : arr1d) jarr1d.append(d);
}
}
return jarr3d;
}
static final double[][][] jarr3dToArr3d(final JSONArray jarr3d) {
final int lenZ = jarr3d.size();
final double[][][] arr3d = new double[lenZ][][];
for (int z = 0; z < lenZ; ++z) {
final JSONArray jarr2d = jarr3d.getJSONArray(z);
final int lenY = jarr2d.size();
final double[][] arr2d = arr3d[z] = new double[lenY][];
for (int y = 0; y < lenY; ++y)
arr2d[y] = jarr2d.getJSONArray(y).getDoubleArray();
}
return arr3d;
}
static final String joinArr3d(final double[][][] arr3d) {
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
int idxZ = 0;
for (final double[][] arr2d : arr3d) {
int idxY = 0;
sb.append(ENTER);
for (final double[] arr1d : arr2d) {
int idxX = 0;
for (final double d : arr1d) sb
.append('[').append(idxZ).append("][")
.append(idxY).append("][").append(idxX++)
.append("] ").append(d).append(ENTER);
++idxY;
}
++idxZ;
}
return sb.toString();
}
double[][][] generateArr3d(final double valRange, final int dimsRange) {
return generateArr3d(valRange, dimsRange, dimsRange, dimsRange);
}
double[][][] generateArr3d(
final double valRange,
final int depthRange,
final int heightRange,
final int widthRange) {
final int d = (int) random(1, depthRange + 1);
final int h = (int) random(1, heightRange + 1);
final int w = (int) random(1, widthRange + 1);
final double[][][] arr3d = new double[d][h][w];
println(d, h, w);
for (final double[][] arr2d : arr3d) for (final double[] arr1d : arr2d)
for (int i = 0; i < w; arr1d[i++] = Math.random() * valRange);
return arr3d;
}