What is auxiliary methods in Java?

Question

I was searching for an answer in Google but I could not find a single one. I hope someone here could help me, I need to know what are auxiliary methods in Java.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Sometimes you might need to define a function inside another function to handle your problem. Here, you need a function that called auxiliary method. Generally, when you want to solve your problem in recursive approach, you need auxiliary method.