Re: return array of strings to class

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:14:23 -0800
Message-ID:
<ORzrh.134005$Pv5.36900@newsfe17.lga>
sazykin@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

i'm wriritng a smal programm and i whant to return array of string to
class here is an example i whant to do...

public class CreateArray{

public static String[] create_str_array(){

//here i'm reading a txt file to string array..

StringArray[i] = dis.readLine(); i++;

then i'm trying to return my array with

return (String[])(line)
}}

ok no i supposed to have array of strings and i would like to access it
in my new class

public class AccessArray{

public static accessArray(String[] StringArray) {

//and here comes that i dont know how can access my array....
I have tried:

CreateArray[] StringArray = new CreateArray[20];
for (int i=0; i>10;i++)
String newArray[i] = line[i].create_str_array();

//but this doesnt seems to work. please help....

}}

i whant to have pass exactly the same array to this class from my
CreateArray class

thanx


A method to return an array of Strings:

String[] method() {
     String[] strArray = {"one","two","three"};
     return strArray;
}

When you create an array of Objects you need to create the array
reference and then you need to populate the array.

String str = "three";
String[] strArray = new String[3];
strArray[0] = new String("one");
strArray[1] = "two";
strArray[2] = str;

If you are going to read Strings from a text file, the easiest way to
get them into a String[] is to read and add them to an ArrayList. When
you are done reading, create a String[] from the ArrayList.

FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("file.txt");
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
String str = null;
ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
while ((str = br.readLine()) != null)
     list.add(str);
int length = list.size();
String[] strArray = new String[length];
strArray = list.toArray(strArray);

You will need to add your own Exception handling code to the above.

--

Knute Johnson
email s/nospam/knute/

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