Converting ArrayList<Object> into a String[] of their toString()s

I'm trying to track down a problem & am wondering if anyone can spot something inherently wrong with this method?

Code:

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private ArrayList<Order> orders=new ArrayList();

public String[] ordersArray(){
        String[] ordersArray=new String[orders.size()];
        for(int i=0;i==orders.size();i++){
                ordersArray[i]=currentOrder.toString();
        }
        return ordersArray;

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To turn your question around, what do YOU think the problem is? Are there exceptions? Does it compile? When you say 'track down a problem'...what is the problem? (btw, there are quite a few problems within)

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Originally Posted by doWhile

To turn your question around, what do YOU think the problem is? Are there exceptions? Does it compile? When you say 'track down a problem'...what is the problem? (btw, there are quite a few problems within)

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I'm using it to convert an ArrayList into an array of Strings so it can be used in a JList. It does compile & I've tried testing this method with a few instances of Order, but it does some weird things in the JList I've used it in. I was wondering if the problem was in my testing, or in this method itself. Tried using the debugger a bit, to not much avail though.

Never hurts to start at the basics. See the following
The for Statement (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)
And notice the syntax of a for loop (eg initialization;termination;increment)
..and also note that the ArrayList class has a method for converting to arrays.

I looked at the loop, & changed my mind about it - using a for/each loop now, which works. I looked into that toArray() method, but wasn't sure how to use it. Thanks for the advice though.

Code:

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public String[] ordersArray(){
                String[] ordersArray=new String[orders.size()];
                int i=0;
                for(Order currentOrder: orders){
                        ordersArray[i]=currentOrder.toString();
                        i++;
                }
                return ordersArray;
        }

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