Re: Adding arrays to arrays...

From:
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:05:06 -0700
Message-ID:
<48adadf9$0$17648$7836cce5@newsrazor.net>
Danger_Duck wrote:

I know SOME datatype must have it. Heck, I could even make one. Yet
ArrayList does not seem to support arraylist.add(elem[]).

Anyway, I'm basically trying to compile a list of files within a
directory. Well, each directory has subdirectories and so on, so I
want something of the form:

private LovableArray<file> la = new LovableArray<file>();

private void recursiveCall(directory) {
  for (Element elem: directory) {
     if (elem instanceof directoryType) {
          recursiveCall(directory);
     }
     else
         la.add(elem);
  }
}

Wait, that solves my problem....
Anyway, my question remains, do you know of a datatype that supports
addition of arrays? Thanks!


List does, with very little help:

final java.util.List<Object> myList = new java.util.ArrayList<Object>();
final Object[] array = getArrayFromMe();
myList.addAll(java.util.Arrays.asList(array));

hth.
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