New to Java

Hello everyone,

I am fairly new in Java - any help is very much appreciated.

I am trying to pass a two-dimensional array to a function. That function will take that array and add a value then return the new array - but i want to keep the original array intact.
In a high level concept, i am trying to develop a recursive search tree from a 2d array into a new temp-array without changing the original one.


I have searched this forum and read about "Java passing arguments" and i understand that parameters are passed by values and objects by reference - array being an object. But not sure how to make the above question work.

I appreciate your time you take to assist me with this.

//this is a sample code - if i can make this work, my question shall be answered. 
//the below function recevies the array from modF function below
int nextS(int tempArray[][],a)
{
 for (int i=0; i>2;i++)
 {
    for (int j=0;j>2;j++)
     {
      tempArray[i][j]=a;
     }
  }

return tempArray;
}


//the below function receives the arrays from another function
int modF(origArray[][])
{
   int newTempArray [][];
  newTempArray =   nextS(origArray,1);
//so if i print newTempArray and origArray - they should be different.
}

Thank you once more for taking your time to read this...