Getting the length of two-dimensional array

which 3?

You've created a multi-dimentional array. nir is an array of int arrays; you've got two arrays of length three.

System.out.println(nir[0].length); 

would give you the length of your first array.

Also worth noting is that you don't have to initialize a multi-dimensional array as you did, which means all the arrays don't have to be the same length (or exist at all).

int nir[][] = new int[5][];
nir[0] = new int[5];
nir[1] = new int[3];
System.out.println(nir[0].length); // 5
System.out.println(nir[1].length); // 3
System.out.println(nir[2].length); // Null pointer exception

In the latest version of JAVA this is how you do it:

nir.length //is the first dimension
nir[0].length //is the second dimension

You can do :

 System.out.println(nir[0].length);

But be aware that there's no real two-dimensional array in Java. Each "first level" array contains another array. Each of these arrays can be of different sizes. nir[0].length isn't necessarily the same size as nir[1].length.

use

   System.out.print( nir[0].length);

look at this for loop which print the content of the 2 dimension array the second loop iterate over the column in each row

for(int row =0 ; row < ntr.length; ++row)
 for(int column =0; column<ntr[row].length;++column)
    System.out.print(ntr[row][column]);

int secondDimensionSize = nir[0].length;

Each element of the first dimension is actually another array with the length of the second dimension.