Array to ArrayList

[Cathy Song]

Hi All,

I have an array of Strings eg: String[] names. I would like to convert this to an ArrayList. I can write code to do it. But does anyone know of a method in the java API which already does this?

Thanks,
Cathy.

[Weronpc]

Hello Cathy,

private static final String names[] = {"Mike", "Cathy", "Nancy"};

List nome = new ArrayList( Arrays.asList( names ) );

By the way Cathy, I didn't test it out, but should work.

Mike
[ June 15, 2004: Message edited by: mike chi ]

[Cathy Song]

Thanks Mike.

[Leo Deegan]

That should work. In fact, you can do this:

List nome = Arrays.asList( names );

[Junilu Lacar]

[B]That should work. In fact, you can do this:

List nome = Arrays.asList( names );

[/B]

Yes, but Cathy wanted an ArrayList specifically. There's no guarantee that Arrays.asList() will return an instance of ArrayList. Your code is preferable though if there is no requirement for a specific type, just that it implements the List interface.

[Leo Deegan]

Ah, yes, good eye. I missed that detail in the question.