Re: Newbie Question - ArrayLists and referencing it

From:
 "Chris ( Val )" <chrisval@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:57:39 -0800
Message-ID:
<1194695859.466009.162620@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 10, 5:50 pm, Taria <mche...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I've tried many different ways to assign a value to the position of my
choice in a data structure, ArrayList and would appreciate any hints
how to do this. My program as follows (short version):

import java.util.*;
    public class MyProg1 {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
          ArrayList data = new ArrayList();


You are using an "unchecked" ArrayList here, try:
  "ArrayList<Integer> data = new ArrayList<Integer>();"

          ArrayList [] table = new ArrayList[5];
          data.add(1);
          data.add(3);
          data.add(4);
           for ( int i = 0; i < 3; i++ ){
              //table.add(data.get(i)); //these are 3 different
failed ways that I've tried
              //table[i]=data.get(i);
             //table(i)=data.get(i);


Wrong syntax, and trying to assign to empty elements.

             table[0] = data;
         }
 }

Essentially, I want to assign the first value of data to the first
element of table, the second value of data to table(2,0), and 3rd
element to table(3,0). The statement table[0] = data puts the whole
arrayList data to table(0) which is not what I want. How do you
reference the elements of table? I thought I understood the
referening until now. :x

Any help is appreciated.


You are going to get a lot of warnings using "unchecked"
arrays, but you can reduce that a little bit as follows:

public class MyProg1
 {
  public static void main( String[] args )
   {
    ArrayList<Integer> data = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    ArrayList table[] = new ArrayList[ 5 ];

    Arrays.fill( table, new ArrayList<Integer>() );

    data.add( 1 );
    data.add( 3 );
    data.add( 4 );

    for( int i = 0; i < data.size(); i++ ) {
      table[ i ].add( i, data.get( i ) );
     }
   }
 }

To suppress the warnings completely, you will (AFAIK),
need to use an annotation, or use the '-nowarn' flag
at the command line.

--
Chris

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