Separating an array into Strings

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ArrayList<String> stock_list = new ArrayList<String>();
stock_list.add("stock1");
stock_list.add("stock2");

I have this ArrayList, how do I separate into separate Strings so that I get String a="stock1"; String b="stock2"?

Use the List#get(int) method.

Sotirios Delimanolis
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2014-01-02 04:58:28 +00:00
Commented Jan 2, 2014 at 4:58 — Sotirios Delimanolis
– Sotirios Delimanolis, Commented Jan 2, 2014 at 4:58

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:32:20Z

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Seperating an array into Strings

You are mistaken that it's an array. No, it is ArrayList.

ArrayList implements List and it have a method get() which takes index as a arg. Just get those strings back with index.

Returns the element at the specified position in this list.

String a = stock_list.get(0);
String b = stock_list.get(1);

And you should consider to declare your ArrayList like

List<String> stock_list = new ArrayList<String>();

Which is called as Programming with Interfaces

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Santino 'Sonny' Corleone Over a year ago

Suppose I have a date and time seperately.and I want to combine both of them to date.How to do it?Something like this

Time dateString=x14;     Time dateString2=x16;     Date dateString1=x15;  Date d1 = new Date(dateString1+" "+dateString);

Suresh Atta Over a year ago

@user3040563 No that date(string) is deprecated, look here :stackoverflow.com/questions/6876155/…

stinepike · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02 05:05:13Z

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just an alternative answer

String[] temp = new String[stock_list.size()];
stock_list.toArray(temp);

now temp[0] contains the first string and temp[1] contains the other.

answered Jan 2, 2014 at 5:05

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Elliott Frisch Over a year ago

You can do it in one step with stock_list.toArray(new String[stock_list.size()]);

Elliott Frisch Over a year ago

Not intended as an optimization, just an observation. If you want to talk about readability, why not suggest stockList?

Shriram · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02 12:14:20Z

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ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("xxx");
Object[] array = list.toArray();
   for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
   System.out.println(" value = " + array[i].toString());
   }

answered Jan 2, 2014 at 12:14

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