grabbing an item from an arraylist.

[newtojava7]

hello,

i have many strings in an arraylist. im allowing the user to type in a string into the JTextField, and if the string matches a string in the arraylist, that string will be displayed into a JList.

my question is after the program finds the string, how can I grab that string out of the arraylist to display in the JList? I know I could just set the JList to show whatever string was typed into the textfield, however I want it to display the string in the arraylist instead.

thanks

[hardwired]

List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
// Get String at index 2 in list.
int index = 2;
String s = list.get(index);
// [i]get[/i] returns an Object — see api.
// So if not using generics you will need to cast the
// value returned by/from the [i]get[/i] method to the
// type you put into the list.
List list = new ArrayList();
int index = 2;
String s = (String)list.get(index);