[SOLVED] dynamically sized arrays

[ddatta8]

I want to have arrays in my Java program whose size can be adjusted dynamically during execution. How do I do that in Java? Please help.

[Fubarable]

Look up ArrayLists

[MK12]

Yes, ArrayLists are what you are looking for. The only catch is that they must contain Objects. That means no primitives, e.i. no ints, longs, doubles, floats, bytes, chars, shorts, etc. If you wanted it to contain numbers, you will have to use the Object Wrappers for the primitives, i.e. Integer class, Double class, etc. Strings are Objects also if you were planning on putting those in the array. Unless you were planning on having different types of Objects in the ArrayList, i.e. index 0 is an Integer, object 1 is a String, object 2 a BigDecimal, etc., you should use generics, here is an example assuming that you are using Integers:

import java.util.ArrayList;
class ArrayListExample {
     public void doExample() {
          /* ArrayList size will automatically increase when you
              try to add another object and it is full. The argument
              int the ArrayList constructor used here is the initial
              size of the ArrayList. I believe if you just do () in-
              stead of (size), it will assign a default capacity of 10
           */
          ArrayList<Integer> aList = new ArrayList<Integer>(4);
          for(int i = 0; i < 18; i++) {
               aList.add(new Integer(i));
          }
          aList.trimToSize(); // this deletes any empty spaces in the list, 
                    // but it doesnt do anything in this situation because our
                    // list started out at size 4 and then each new Integer in-
                    // creased the size by 1
          int[] anArray = new int[aList.size()]; // put it into int array
          for(int i = 0; i < anArray.length; i++) {
               anArray[i] = aList.get(i).intValue();
          }
     }
}

Hope this Helped
-MK12

[Webuser]

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[ddatta8]

Thanks a lot. It is very helpful.

[MK12]

Webuser: :). ddata8: please go to the top of this page and click Thread Tools and then in the drop-down menu, click Mark This Thread As Solved, so no one wastes time going to this thread thinking that it hasn't been solved yet.

[derekitishere]

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[Fubarable]

Welcome. Now if you want to introduce yourself, there's a forum for this where you should post this. You shoudn't hijack someone else's thread.